Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D., F.L.S. : physician to the Public Dispensary, and to the Fever Institution in London.

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D., F.L.S. : physician to the Public Dispensary, and to the Fever Institution in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the descriptions in Chambers’ Dictionai’y, cut- ting all the wheels of the former with his pen- knife. His extraordinary diligence and industry, his docility, and his habits of punctual obedience, made him a great favourite with all his masters ; and he was never once punished in all the years he was at school. Mr. Mackereth was accustom- ed to observe, that his most remarkable faculty, as a school-boy, was his sound and penetrating judgment; and that he was not so much distin- guished by quickness, as by the unceasing energy and vigour with which every power of his mind was kept in full and active employment, and brought to bear at once upon every object pre- sented to it. Many of his juvenile productions were pre- served by that gentleman, and exhibited long afterward to his visitors: among these were poetic translations from the Greek and Latin; several themes, as they are called, written upon given subjects; and a few original stanzas of some humour, addressed to one of his com- panions on his want of taste and ear for music. His quick sense of the ludicrous supplied him.