1. Memoir of the late Rev. Dr John Fleming

Memoir of Dr. Babington

was more esteemed during life, or more regretted on his death in 1833 (from influenza, then so prevalent), than this truly good man, the leading features of whose character are well pourtrayed in a sketch of his career drawn up by his distinguished son-in-law, Dr. Richard Bright, in-^e twelfth volume of the Medical Gazette. The rare honour ofS*k. statue?one of the best works of the late Mr. Beh...

Memoir of the late Samuel Smith Thomson

SAMUEL SAIITH THO1AISoN, whose niame is so interwoven with all that is "true and honest and just and lovely and of good report" that it will not easily be forgotten in the town and neighbourhood of his adoption, was born in Coleraine in May, 1778, and died on the 30th April, 1849. The immediate cause of his death was bronchitis, to attacks of which he had been subject for a number of years, but...

Dr. John Lindesay Pearce

Dr. John Thompson

Dr John Rae

recognition is made also of Bright's discoveries in liver disease and neurology. But the reader gains little understanding of Bright's work in the context of changing ideas of disease, chemistry, and medical investigation of the first half of the nineteenth century. We do not learn enough about what, if any, skills and ideas Bright brought back from his European excursions. It is when discussin...