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became considerable , and it war growing yearly until the time of his detaed&fe . ^ TMs was without any contrivance ^ or scheme of his own , and wholly owifctf tfc his , character , his talents and his man * nets . He was averse to the usual , and in most cases necessary measures for
advancing his professional career . He was once an unsuccessful , and , the writer suspects , an unwilling candidate for the office of physician to the Charter-House , and he allowed himself to be proposed as a candidate for the same office to the
London Hospital , but shrunk back in the midst of his canvass from the toilsome drudgery which su < fh a pursuit imposes , and from which it k strange that some means should not be adopted by the public ,-or at least by the directors of charitable institutions , to save the members of a profession , whose education and
social habit 3 may be expected to train them to delicacy of feeling . — -Dr . Pert Cheerfully ^ . accepted and conscientiously fulfiled the duty of Physician to the Refuge for the Destitute m Hackney 2 $ oad t he was also Physician to the Albion Fire and Life Insurance Office , which appointment he held from the time
of the institution of the Society . In the , regular and unambitious practice of his profession , Dr . PettVlIfe was varied by few incidents . His studies of later years were chiefly medical , and few persons in the profession were better acquainted ! with the history of disease and with the discoveries made In the healing art . His
leisure from his increasing medical duties wad devoted to general literature and science , and * to the enjoyments of social intercourse * in which he took lively pleasure and to which be largely contributed . By a liberal education he had acquired a ,
great mass of general knowledge , and no small share of elegant learning ; and by a judicious disposition of his acquirements , appeared competent to the discussion of any subject ,, whether scientific or literary . He read all new works- of merit with
avidity ,, and was rarely seen : in his walks or rides without a book in his band * His diffidence restrained him from employing his pep for the public benefit . Hjis standard of literary excellence was very high * itnd lie seemed to feel that he could not
write to his own satisfaction . When , urged to publish cases that occurred in , tois-own practice , he was accustomed to disparage his owe opinion and to remark that , the publication of medical cases had
grown into an evil . It is to be regretted that an unjust estimate of foi& own * powers liept trim frtfni the exercise of literary / cofuposition , since the few Hpecimens of HiawfUJng that are given to , the publi c evince remarkable soundness of iudgnieut ,
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dgKcacy o € feeling and simplicity aud perspicn % m style . The earliest of these , known to the present writer , is a short account c ^ fihe late Rev * llenry Moore of Liskeard * fMoa , Repos , XVJi . 163 J inserted m' l 5 r . AifcitfV elegant memoir of that amiable ifeaii , prefeied to «< Poems
Lyrical and Miscellaneous /* ia quarto , which Dr . A . edited tor the Author ^ and which appeared as a posthumous pubiica * - tion in 1803 . 0 r . Pett was connected by his family with the Presbyterian congregation at Liskeard ; and Mr . Moored too
character and ta ^ te were congenial with his own not tp attract his cordial e&teexn « -r-It may be here added , tiat Dr . p * was one of the Trustees of the Meetiug-Hqu&ei in that place , and that upon the extinction of the old congregation l * e consented * with his usual liberality , that the building should be occupied by another deuombii ^
tton , rasing into importance , b « $ unprovided with a suitable chapel .- —The next occasion on which he employed -his pen for the public informatio n was oa ; the death of Mr . Gilbert Wake $ eid , for is&ent as a scholar ,, a Christian , at ji ^ triot $ ad i * friend he ~ felt the highest adnjiratfon . In conjuuetiou with other , niedical m ^ Dr * Pett attended this tijujy enamenl ; joaan in
his last illness , and at the instance of bis biographer , Mr , Rutt , he eontiibuted a letter con ^ aiuirvg a \ yell-drawn up and v ^ ry luteresting detail of tb& naalady Ihikt deprived t ^ ie worldpr * 8 o dsatingui ^ hed aa ornament . This is inserted in VoJ . H * of the Memoirs , pp , 2 ^ 9 ^ 295 r auji wiU b ^ read with eager , but melanefooly iuterest by the friends of JDr ^ Pett , ft » . ffc h ^ s kmg been by those of Air . W ^ kefipiaV —Tfa ^
only fruit of Dr . peU '» ^ en ^ be&ides U theaef was also produced at ^ he c ^ of frknd ^ ship , in t / ie ca § e of the Jaie ; m ^ h-ia ^ mented Mr . Dewhurst , Ii > a l # Uflr to Mr . Rutt , wh ^ v compiled > he account of this distuiguished -scholar , jso prematurely taken away from the , \ yot » ld ^ j > r ! i | ted i | n our VI Wr \ pl \ xmey pp > 729 ~~ 74 V 9 t > r < Pett both relate ^ \ yitti « r&at succinptuesa
the progress of h |» r ^ pidly ^ tal disease ^ and sketched with great felicity Wq gentit ral characixTv ( jPp ^ 741—743 ) Krom frequent and femiliar intercoq r ^ e , he knew w ^ Ll th ^ po wers of Mr . P ^ whur ^ t' 8 mind and . the ric ^ i acqimitipps pf knowledge which he Iia 4 ^ tc ^ ped np ^^ d no
one more de ^ i ^ a ^ d . permanent laini&otr ed his loao . Ti ^ r ^ dew of t ^ 3 work may remember tU ^ f ^ W % ft : im ^ 4 ongj ^ proposed to p ^ l ^ h , ^ i »« w ^ o ^ of Jtfn Dewhum ^ p ape rs ^ M -tbp fmfwmm of thi » project ©^ Jg * ttfmMX ^ m * k > sa and , ( the lml : t 9 tf ^ -0 mj ^ »^»^ jt ' ^ ' y * * S ^ Ji JJyi . rJ ^ t ^* Pl » ' ^^ WSi ^^^ J " •^ W ^ tP' *^ PW ^ "w ^" t ( ft ™ w ^ PF " *™ f ^<* B j ** t 5 R . ^^^^ yTTiWWRWfl ^ wJW ^' x ^^ lflPR' ^ 'iPf flW WW' " * ca » p ^ f 4 j fi jzfc rB *< m m il » ; f ^ Vinirite
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110 Obituaru ^*» l > r . ) Pett .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/46/
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