The life, character & writings of Benjamin Bell, F.R.C.S.E., F.R.S.E., author of "A system of surgery", and other works / by his grandson Benjamin Bell.

Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The life, character & writings of Benjamin Bell, F.R.C.S.E., F.R.S.E., author of "A system of surgery", and other works / by his grandson Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. The following Memoir of my grandfather may appear to be uncalled for at this late period, so many years after his decease. This was my own opinion, in opposition to that of not a few friends, who on various occasions have urged me to undertake the task. The available materials were scanty, and that was another reason for leaving things as they were. About a year ago, however, a series of letters addressed by Benjamin Bell to his father and mother was discovered, carefully docqueted and ar- ranged, in a repository at Woodhouselees, where the old people lived and died. These docu- ments were kindly placed at my disposal by James Bell, Esq., of Liverpool, to whom they belonged. They commence in 1767, and ter- minate in 1793, thus extending over quarter of a century. They are eighty-two in number,