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MEMOIRS
OF
JOHN ABERNETHY.
Yrs. most sincerely
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 Workin 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.
PREFACE
TO
THE FIRST EDITION.
In submitting to the Public a Memoir of a great man, it maynaturally be expected that an author should endeavour to conveyto them some idea of the associations, or other circumstances,which have prompted the undertaking.
My father practised on the borders of a forest; and when hewas called at night to visit a distant patient, it was the greatesttreat to me, then a little boy, to be allowed to saddle my ponyand accompany him. My father knew the forest nearly as well ashis own ga