An Harveian oration [1819] and other remains of John Johnstone.

  • Johnstone, John, 1768-1836.
Date:
1837
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Credit: An Harveian oration [1819] and other remains of John Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greater distance than provincial celebrity usually extends. Possessing great natural acuteness of mind, he was quick in detecting the nature of Disease, and in deciding on the mode of treatment, which was always simple. In forming his opinion of a Case he placed reliance on the expression of coun- tenance and general aspect of the Patient, and while he considered nothing beneath his notice that could contribute to the physical comfort of the Invalid, he never lost sight of the powerful influence which the mind exer- cises on the functions of the body, and ever regarded moral treatment as of paramount importance. It was, indeed, in the general management of his Patients that he peculi- arly excelled, and the ascendancy he almost immediately would gain over their minds, was frequently astonishing. As a scholar notwithstanding his con- tinued avocations, he was possessed of no ordinary acquirements. His memory easily