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III. A Biographical Account of Mr William Hamilton, late Professor of Anatomy and Botany in the University of Glasgow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Robert Cleghorn
Robert Cleghorn
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Lecturer in Chemistry in the University of Glasgow.
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In writing the life of a person who himself published nothing, it is extremely difficult to satisfy the expectation of his particular friends, without incurring the charge of adulation from the rest of the public. How far I have succeeded in doing justice to Mr Hamilton's merit, without insensibility or exaggeration, must be determined by those who knew him, and by those who can appreciate the worth of such professional remarks as I shall lay before them in the sequel. Mr William Hamilton was born in Glasgow July 31. 1758. Having finished the usual course at the Grammar School, he went to Glasgow College in 1770, and continued there studying with great diligence till 1775, when he became Master of Arts at the age of seventeen.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , 1798 , pp. a35 - a63
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1798

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page 35 note * His father was Mr Thomas Hamilton, an eminent surgeon, and professor of anatomy and botany in Glasgow; his mother Mrs Isabel Anderson, daughter of Mr Anderson, formerly professor of church-history in the University of Glasgow.

page 40 note * Both these patients are still alive; and the history of one is given in the Medical Communications of London, vol. 2.

page 43 note * London Medical Observations, vol. 2. p. 354.

page 45 note * Mr Thomson dissected a man with a new socket, formed in the inside of the scapula, Med. Obs. vol. 2.

page 45 note ‡ Memoires del'Academie de Chirurgerie, tome v. p. 45. small edition.

page 49 note * Medical Observations, vol. 2. p. 373.

page 56 note * The canula recommended by Mr Bell has no lip or margin round the opening. By such an addition it has a hold of the parts round the opening, and can be kept much steadier.