The gold-headed cane . ,into whose hands I now was delivered, hadstudied under Boerhaave; afterwards he hadtravelled with the Duke of Hamilton (towhose family he was related), though not ina medical capacity. His brother, a Major inthe army, had been killed at the battle ofBunkers Hill, and as there was not in theworld a more excellent or benevolent characterthan my present master, he adopted his or-phan children, and always acted towards themwith the affection and solicitude of a was a man of very agreeable manners, andhis society was much sought after.—Amongthe many occasions on wh
The gold-headed cane . ,into whose hands I now was delivered, hadstudied under Boerhaave; afterwards he hadtravelled with the Duke of Hamilton (towhose family he was related), though not ina medical capacity. His brother, a Major inthe army, had been killed at the battle ofBunkers Hill, and as there was not in theworld a more excellent or benevolent characterthan my present master, he adopted his or-phan children, and always acted towards themwith the affection and solicitude of a was a man of very agreeable manners, andhis society was much sought after.—Amongthe many occasions on which I attended himto the houses of his professional brethren, Iremember once particularly, when in companywith his nephew, then a very young man(afterwards Dr. David Pitcairn), we calledupon Dr. Richard Warren. We were re-ceived with the greatest kindness and alacrity,the Doctor showing my master that respectfulattention which, without checking the familiartone of friendly intercourse, is due and agree- 176 able to superiors in age. During the livelyand entertaining conversation which ensued,Dr. Pitcairn, in introducing his nephew, ex-pressed himself in these words:—Dr. War-ren, my nephew, whom I present to you,received his early education at Glasgow, * William Pitcairn, M. D. F. R. S. From a portrait,anno 1777, by Sir J. Reynolds. PITCAIRN. 177 but afterwards I took him home, and kept himhere in London, under my own eye for a shorttime, endeavouring to give him some of mypeculiar views of practice. He is now justreturned from Edinburgh, where he hasbeen under the tuition of my countryman, , whose clinical clerk he has been for atwelvemonth. Surely you will think him ayouth of promise in his profession when I in-form you, that in the case of the son of thatgreat master of physic, which the fatherthought desperate, he took a hint from whathe had learned in London, and advised alarger dose of laudanum than is usually madeuse of, which restored the child of
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