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that tiii » ir ^^ jt to lu ^ ieslt * aok a&ai ^ a $ i £ l 5 itiiftg fcdfeg&ttu' WitilkWi . White he ? a&tihaed &r ; ihree * entiiae years , advancing in prdfes ^ onai know ledge and skill , and in the esteem and confidence of kkt natter * as ma ^ T be inferred fttaa ? * n * 1 J £ feaay' am the Ligature
of Arteries * " written bjririm at that time , and published fey Mr . White in his work entitled ^ Cases in Surgery . " After leaving Manchester he went to LawJon , and ei&ployed the winter of 1769 * 70 la attending , the lectures of Dr . Hunter *
His professional education being now completed , he settled in Chester as a surgeon , but remained d « that city little more than a year * being" induced to re * move in November 1771 * to Warrington ,
where his pare » ta continued to reside , and where iis prospects of success were less obstructed by competition * Here he continued till 1784 , and here all his children were born * ids marriage having taken place the year after his removal .
His first work , entitled " Observations on the External Use of Preparations of Lead , " was published at Chester , and this was succeeded , during his residence at Warrington , by three other professional works , viz . " Thoughts on Hospitals , " . " Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain to the time of
Harvey , " and a- very enlarged edition of « ' Lewis ' s Matexia Medica . " His appointment as Lecturer on Chemistry and Physiology at the Academy , induced him to print a ' * Sketch of the Animal Economy , " and ** Heads of Chemistry , ** for the use of his classes , and a translation of Beaumd' 8 Manual of Chemistry .
The intervals of his professional labourswere assiduously devoted to elegant Literature and to Natural History , sources to him at all times of exquisite delight , and in after years beguiling the languor of sickness and soothing many an hour
of anxiety . The * f Essays on Song-writiug , " " Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose , ** consisting of the joint contributions of his- sister , Mrs . Barbauld , and himself , " An Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry , " ** An Essay on the Plait and Character of Thomson ' s Sea-0
sons , and " The Calendar of Nature , " were all published daring this period , and evince-at the same time the elegance of his ta&te and the activity of his mind . His correct knowledge also of the Latin language was shewn in his translation of Tacitus * s Treadae * on the Manners of the
Germans * and bis Life of Agrtarta , being specimens of a projected translation of the entire works of that historian , which was afterwards abandoned , to the loss probably of the English scholar , from the
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circamsiaace < rfMn Murphy Itt&g en-^ jpMBW ^^ tc ^** * W » v ^ WW ^^^ P *^^^^^^^ ' ' ^ JJB *** - * w * jj ^^ BW at Warrington * a&a , ttoct iii » aiast valoed frieodships w « t » fprsiedW coittoHdated with Dr . - Priestley ,. Ur . . Efr&eld , Mr Walrefield and the Rev . George Walter , their common conoexionvTOtfa ; the Aca demy first brought him acquainted , while the easy distance between Warrington
and Manchester allowed him occasional oppostunkies of supporting the friendships previously formed by him with Mn White , Dr . Percival , Mr . Henry and ether residents of that town . His acquaintance at Liverpool included F > r
dime , Mr . Rathbone , Mr . Roscoe , the Rev . J , Yates , and many other cultivated and estimable characters ; and his excel * lent and confidential friend Dr . Haygarth , one of the few who survive hiaa , at chat time resided at Chester , and professional or other incidents ^ now and then bTou ^ about a meeting .
The dissolution of the Academy , which took place not long after the death of his father in 17 B 0 , and the inadequate encouragement offered to the practice df surgery , as distinct from pharmacy ,
determined him to take a physician ' s degree . For this purpose , in the summer of 1784 , he proceeded to Ley den and there graduated , his former residence at Edinburgh , during two sessions , being not sufficient to entitle him to an
examination for a degree . On his return from the Cont&ent , he removed with his family to Yarmouth , in Norfolk , and early in the succeeding year took up his residence in London . Scarcely , h 4 we \ fer , had he settled himself in his new frit nation , before he received an invitation from the inhabitants of Yarmouth anil
us vicinity to resume his professional duties at that place . Although hisstay there had little exceeded a year in duration * yet such had been the effect produced by the few opportunities aUbrdett him of exercising his professional sit ill , combined with his scientific add literary acquirements , and his amiable and
cultivated manners , that the invitation was quite unanimous . He accordingly re * turned to Yarmouth , not more than two months after he had quitted it , Well pleased in having been spared the anxious uncertainty of an attempt to establish himself to the Metropolis .
The three principal bodies w roei % in Yarmouth and its vicinity , at that tittle , were the Corporation , the Dissefctersiarid the Clcrrgy of the EstabHshed C ^ Hirchi The two ibrroer , inhabiting the tOwil , a » d not wpoti very cordial ^ erms Jmih 1 cadi other , wer ^ chiefly devoted to cotntnercial phi sails . The clergy r - fibecaUy educated ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1823, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1780/page/53/
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