Memorial to the late James Thomson, Assistant-Surgeon of the forty-fourth Regiment.

Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memorial to the late James Thomson, Assistant-Surgeon of the forty-fourth Regiment. 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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    gree, and, coming to London, rose gradually into eminence as a physician. He did not forget his benefactress, the widow, who received for many years an annuity without knowing the source from which it came. His career was not beset with dangers like that of Thomson; but they had both been trained in the school of Cromarty, though not at the same time; and they possessed some kindred qualities. Hugh Miller quotes from the English poet and clergyman who had been delivered from a dangerous illness by the able and generous care of the Cromarty doctor, the following words:— The God I trust, with timeliest kind relief, Sent the beloved Physician to my aid—