Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gideon Harvey to the place; he was then in a very bad state of health, and, there was every reason to suppose, would not live many months ; each resolving, in his own mind, to strengthen, by every means in his power, his influence, against the vacancy that would speedily recur. Dr. Gideon Harvey was accordingly ap- pointed, without any solicitation on his part, and much to his surprise; nor were his reeom- menders less surprised, to find him daily mend- ing in his health. The situation of the Tower agreed so well with him, that he, who had had the office bestowed upon him, in full confidence that he would soon quit the world, enjoyed it for many years, and outlived both the physi- cians, who so vainly hoped to speedily succeed him. ALBERT DE HALLER, M. D. According to the accounts which are given us of this great physician and philosopher, the progress of his studies, at the earliest periods of life, was rapid and almost beyond belief. Where other children were beginning only to read, he was studying Bayle and Moreri; and, at nine years of age, he was able to translate Greek, and was beginning the study of Hebrew. Not long after this the course of his education was somewhat interrupted by the death of his father; an event which happened when he was