An account of the life, writings, and character, of the late Dr John Hope, Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh : delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1788 / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1789
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Credit: An account of the life, writings, and character, of the late Dr John Hope, Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh : delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1788 / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nlty of ftudying botany; a branch of medi- cal fcience to which he had mown an early propenfity, and to which he had always be- ftowed no inconsiderable degree of attention, under Bernard juffieu, profeffor at Paris, at that time one of the mod celebrated botanifts in the world. But the good fortune, with which many parts of his earlier ftudies were attended, did not flow in an uninterrupted feries. For, ere the courfe of education was finifhed, he fuf- tained an irreparable lofs by the death of his father j an event which not only deprived him of the ability of profecuting his ftudies with the advantages he had formerly enjoyed, but which rendered his exertions necemiry, both for his own fupport, and for the affiftance of thofe, to whom he was not lefs ftrongly at- tached by the ties of afFeftion than of nature. Upon his return to his native country, he obtained the degree of Do&or of Medicine, from the Univerfity of Glafgow, in the be- ginning of the year 1750. A few months after that, he was admitted a member of the Royal College of Phyficians in Edinburgh, and entered upon the practice of medicine in <***i this