Memoirs of John Abernethy / With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published

INDEX.

? CHAPTER I.
?	PAGE.
Retrospect	1
Progress of Discovery—Missions of individuals—Galileo, Bacon, Kepler	2
Berzelius, Davy, &c.—Combined effect	3
Difficulty of estimating individual efforts—Physiological laws	4
Meaning of events seldom seen at the time	5
Propose to point out the position occupied by Abernethy	ib.
Necessity of clearly seeing what is required	6
Medical science—False ideas on	7
Birth of Abernethy	8
Goes to School	9
? CHAP. II.
Predictions often erroneous—Dryden, Swift, Sheridan, Niebuhr, Galileo, Newton, Wren	11
Individuality of Abernethy	12
Schoolfellows of Abernethy	13
School reminiscences	14
Mr. Thacker's letter	15
Leaves school for London	16
? CHAP. III.
Of the choice of a profession	17
Of steadiness and industry	18
Abernethy's ready memory	19
Becomes a pupil in surgery	20
Apprenticed to Sir C. Blicke	22
Early indications	23
? CHAP. IV.
Sir W. Blizard—His influence	25
Abernethy's view of anatomy	26
His gratitude to Sir William	27
How expressed—Quotation	28
Demonstrates for Sir W. Blizard	28
Mode of teaching anatomy described—Mr. Pott	30
? CHAP. V.
A large London hospital	21
Elected Assistant Surgeon—Important epoch in his life	33
His position—Lectures in St. Bartholomew Close	34
Dr. Maclaurin, Dr. Marshall, Mr. Pott	ib.
His education as a lecturer	35
Of teaching too early	ib.
Its disadvantages—His lectures soon attractive—His arrangement	36
Impresses the importance of comparative anatomy	37
His labours—Zeal and industry—Early rising	38
Shyness of Abernethy	39
Theatre built in the hospital—His winter courses given in it, 1791—Thus the founder of the school in St. Bartholomew's	ib.
? CHAP. VI.
Of change in all created things	41
Experiments	42
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