Sketch of the life and character of the late Samuel McCulloch, esq., Liverpool : member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London / by David Thom.

  • David Thom
Date:
1853
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Credit: Sketch of the life and character of the late Samuel McCulloch, esq., Liverpool : member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London / by David Thom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    high respectabihty of his parentage, both by his father's and mother's side, no person re- siding in and acquainted with this locality needs to be told. Considerably more than sixty years ago, his father commenced business as a medical practitioner here. In a laborious and most useful branch of the profession, his skill, humanity, and success are well known, and have been rarely paralleled, much less surpassed. At the advanced age of between 94 and 95, and with his mental powers in a most wonderful state of preservation and acti- vity, this respected man and venerable patriarch still survives, to deplore the loss of the last of three sons, all of whom attained to manhood. Under a father so eminent and excellent, and so well qualified to direct his studies, the gentleman just deceased was brought up. Early in Ufe he gave indications of mental supe- riority. Those who can recoUect him when passing from infancy to boyhood,—and to one friend, whom to mention would be to com- mand the respect and confidence of this com- munity, the writer has been indebted for valu- able information as to this period of JVIr. Samuel
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