PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Works Published BY THOMAS HATCHARD, THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF TUPPER'S PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY. Title: Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published Author: George Macilwain Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by Sonya Schermann, Larry B. Harrison, |
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MEMOIRS
OF
JOHN ABERNETHY.
MEMOIRS
OF
JOHN ABERNETHY,
WITH A VIEW OF
HIS LECTURES, HIS WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER;
WITH ADDITIONAL
EXTRACTS FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS,
NOW FIRST PUBLISHED;
BY GEORGE MACILWAIN, F.R.C.S.
AUTHOR OF "MEDICINE AND SURGERY ONE INDUCTIVE SCIENCE,"
&c. &c. &c.
"The evil that men do, lives after them:
The good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakspeare.
Third Edition.
LONDON:
HATCHARD AND CO. PICCADILLY.
1856.
The Author reserves the right of publishing a Translation of this Work in France.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. MALLETT, WARDOUR STREET.
TO THE MEMORY
OF
JOHN ABERNETHY,
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
BY
ONE OF HIS NUMEROUS
AND
GRATEFUL PUPILS,
THE AUTHOR.