Annals of medical history . forcibly, and they called himfamiliarly the Pope, but the multiplicityof his discoveries and inventions shows thathis caution was the self-imposed limit to afertile and active imagination. Beyond appearing at the meetings oflearned societies, he took little part inpublic affairs. He lived alone, conducting hisinvestigations in a deliberate and exhaustivemanner, but in the most rigid seclusion, noperson being admitted to his laboratoryon any pretext. Do you sec that furnace?he once said to one who had penetratedunbidden to this sacred ground. make a profound
Annals of medical history . forcibly, and they called himfamiliarly the Pope, but the multiplicityof his discoveries and inventions shows thathis caution was the self-imposed limit to afertile and active imagination. Beyond appearing at the meetings oflearned societies, he took little part inpublic affairs. He lived alone, conducting hisinvestigations in a deliberate and exhaustivemanner, but in the most rigid seclusion, noperson being admitted to his laboratoryon any pretext. Do you sec that furnace?he once said to one who had penetratedunbidden to this sacred ground. make a profound bow to it, for this Some English Worthies of Science of Interest to Ophthalmologists 259 is the first, and will be the last time of yourseeing it. On another occasion, a distin-guished foreign philosopher expressed tohim an anxious desire to see his , he replied; and immediatelyproduced a small tray containing some glasstubes, a blow pipe, two or three watchglasses, a strip of platinum, and a few test. William H\T)E (1766-1828) bottles: this, of course, could not have beenthe whole of his apparatus. This anecdotemay be taken as an illustration of his disliketo admit anyone to his workroom. The chiefevents in Wollastons life were his dis-coveries which flowed in uninterruptedsuccession from 1800 down to the time ofhis death. His chief interest in travelingabout England and when abroad was inseeing manufactures; and the machineryof Manchester left a most vivid impressionupon his thoughts. Dr. Wollaston was endowed with bodilysenses of extraordinary acuteness and accu-racy, and with great vigor of undertsanding. His intimate friend, the Rev. Henryd Hasted, fellow of Christ Church, Cambridge;party to a friendship begun while at BurySt. Edmunds, which lasted to the end of hislife, wrote that Wollaston had extraordi-nary dexterity, the genius of the finger-tips,and eyesight so keen that he could distin-guish minute plants while on horseback. In charact
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