Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong, ... To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / by Francis Boott.

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1833-34
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    school ot medicine was Dr. Gregory, the author of the classical “ Conspectus Medicinae Theoreticae,” a man perhaps more distinguished for elegance of mind than for any originality as a teacher. Dr. Armstrong always retained a very grateful sense of the urbanity and benevolence of this amiable and eloquent Professor; but he considered his mode of instruction as too scholastic, and too much devoted to those views which the celebrity of his prede- cessor, Dr. Cullen, had established in the Uni- versity. The Professors at that time belonging to the medical department of the University, were ;— Dr. Gregory, Prof, of the Practice of Physic. Dr. Duncan, sen., Prof, of the Theory of Physic. Dr. Munro, Prof, of Anatomy and Surgery. Dr. Home, Prof, of Materia Medica. Dr. Hope, Prof, of Chemistry. Dr. J. Hamilton, Prof, of Midwifery. Dr. Rutherford, Prof, of Botany. Besides these distinguished men connected with the University, the medical student was enabled to profit by the practice and long experience of the celebrated Dr. Hamilton, the author of the work on Purgative Medicines, and by the lectures of Dr. John Murray on Chemistry, a man whom Dr. Armstrong considered as the most eminent, for ta- lent, of all whom he had known in Scotland. He always cherished a very high degree of respect for Dr. Hamilton, whose practice in the Edinburgh Infirmary he regularly attended, independent of the clinical lectures delivered by the medical professors of the University ; and I have always thought that