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was the fourth son of James shed physician of Worceswas educated at Merton ember of that house pro789; A.M. 7th July, 1793; M.D. 10th July, 1800. He the College of Physicians low 25th June, 1805. He tion of 1819. Dr. Johnstone Worcester, and in 1793 was firmary in that city, an office when he removed to Birwith the most eminent a period of nearly forty years. an to the Birmingham Genead performed the duties of that ligence for more than thirty office at the hospital in 1833. his residence, Monument-house, wh December, 1836, aged sixtyRaional learning, Dr. Johnuteness of intellect, an insight of mind, and a kindness of

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he practised. The elegance as well as the depth of his scholarship made him the delight as well as the ornament of society, and procured for him the friendship and esteem of many of the most learned and illustrious persons in the empire."* "* Dr. Johnstone was the author of

An Essay on Mineral Poisons, published in his father's Medical Essays and Observations. 8vo. Evesham. 1795.

Medical Jurisprudence: On Madness, with Strictures on Hereditary Insanity, Lucid Intervals, and the Confinement of Maniacs. 8vo. Birm. 1800.

An Account of the Discovery of the Power of Mineral Acid Vapours to destroy Contagion. 8vo. 1803.

A Reply to Dr. James Carmichael Smyth containing Remarks on his Letter to Mr. Wilberforce, and a further Account of the discovery of the power of Mineral Acids in a state of Gas to destroy Contagion. 8vo. Lond. 1805.

But Dr. Johnstone's great work, that by which his name will be transmitted to posterity, was his "Life and Works of Samuel Parr, LL.D.," which appeared in eight volumes octavo in 1828. For forty years he had possessed the friendship and was honoured with the familiar intercourse of that profound scholar, who resided at Hatton, a few miles from Birmingham. Dr. Johnstone's life of his revered friend is "written with great vigour and feeling; it is full of interesting literary anecdote and scholarlike research, and free from that slavish timidity which fears to acknowledge the failings of humanity in the subject of its panegyric. The life of Dr. Parr is a fearless, manly, and noble specimen of biography, putting to shame the meagre attempts of those puny scribblers who have sought to write themselves into ephemeral notice by the celebrity of the great name with which their own may be thus temporarily associated. Dr. Johnstone was not only, by his long intimacy, his liberal politics, and enlarged views, of all men the best qualified, to write the life of his illustrious friend, but by his own taste and learning was enabled to appreciate that of so eminent a man.Ӡ

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SAN, M.D., was born in London, and was dissenting minister, in which capacity a few years. Devoting himself, howac, he proceeded to Gottingen, where he c years, and graduated doctor of mediS02. He was admitted a Licentiate Physicians 25th June, 1805, and then city, soon obtained the confidence of a among dissenters. He was elected phyLondon hospital 9th June, 1807, and reVice in 1822. Dr. Buxton was the original a regarded as the founder of the Infirmary and Consumption, the first institution of ace country. He died at Grosvenor-place, on the 1st July, 1825, and was buried in He was the author of

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So, being then of middle age. He The medical classes in Edinburgh in 1775,

other session in 1804. He was adenuate of the College of Physicians 25th ad died at his home in Russell-square, stt, in the fifty-seventh year of his

FLOWIN, M.D., was descended from an blo Camily in the county of Norfolk, Malmburgh, and was the third son of w M.D., a distinguished provincial punctised for many years at Lincoln, mouths at Bath, where he attended the was one of his physicians extraordinary. dive of our present notice was admitted to midsummer, 1778, on leaving which wad at Peterhouse, Cambridge, but having

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been elected to one of the Tancred scholarships he removed to Caius college, of which house he subsequently became a fellow on the Perse foundation. He attended the lectures of Dr. George Fordyce and Dr. Andrew Marshall, in London, and then spent some time at Edinburgh. He graduated M.B. at Cambridge in 1797, and during the peace of Amiens travelled with the marquis of Cholmondeley in the capacity of domestic physician to France and Switzerland. He proceeded M.D. 5th July, 1803, and was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 1st October, 1804, a Fellow 30th September, 1805. He entered the army as hospital assistant, and joined the military hospitals in Flanders under the duke of York in 1794. On the termination of that campaign, he was appointed physician to the forces, and in this capacity proceeded with the fleet under admiral Christian to St. Domingo. In 1804, on the breaking out of the pestilential fever at Gibraltar, he was selected by the physician-general of the army, Sir Lucas Pepys, to proceed thither. In recognition of his services there, his majesty George III in 1809 conferred upon him the honour of knighthood, and shortly afterwards he was appointed chief of the medical department of the British army at Cadiz under lord Lynedoch. On Sir James Fellowes' retirement from the service in 1815, being then inspector-general of military hospitals, he was honourably mentioned by the Lords of the Treasury in a minute dated 3rd March, 1815. He died at Langstone cottage, near Havant, the residence of his son, Captain Fellowes, on the 30th December, 1857, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. Sir James Fellowes was the author of

Reports of the Pestilential Disorder of Andalusia, which appeared at Cadiz in the year 1800, 1804, 1810 and 1813; with an account of that fatal Epidemic which prevailed at Gibraltar during the autumnal months of 1804; also Observations on the remitting and intermitting Fever among the Troops after their return from Zealand in 1809. 8vo. Lond. 1815.

CHARLES PRICE, M.D., was the eldest son of the

Rev. Thomas Price, vicar of Merriott, near Crewkerne, in Somersetshire, and was educated at Ilminster and at Wadham college, Oxford, of which house he was a fellow. He proceeded A.B. 30th June, 1797, A.M. 9th July, 1801, M.B. 25th June, 1802, and M.D. 14th January, 1804. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 1st October, 1804, and a Fellow 30th September, 1805: he was Censor in 1807, and he delivered the Harveian oration in 1820. Dr. Price was elected physician to the Middlesex hospital 19th February, 1807, and resigned that office 16th May, 1815, at about which time he removed to Brighton, where he practised with much reputation, and on the 23rd August, 1832, was appointed physician extraordinary to William IV. Dr. Price died at Brighton 8th September, 1853, aged seventy-seven.

GEORGE GILBERT CURREY, M.D., was born in Norfolk, and educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, as a member of which house he proceeded A.B. 1797, A.M. 1800; when removing to Oxford he was incorporated on his master's degree, and as a member of Exeter college graduated M.B. 23rd April, 1801; M.D. 14th June, 1804. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 1st October, 1804, and a Fellow 30th September, 1805; was Censor in 1806, 1816; Croonian lecturer 1817, 1818; Harveian orator, 1822, and he was appointed Treasurer 26th June, 1820. Dr. Currey was physician to St. Thomas's hospital, to which office he was elected in 1816. On the 18th November, 1822, he was married at Madron church, Cornwall, to Mary, the only child of John Dennis, esq., of Alverton, Penzance, and he died whilst on his wedding tour, at Ivy Bridge, co. Devon, 11th December, 1822.

THOMAS TURNER, M.D., was born in London, and was the son of an opulent West India merchant. He was educated at the Charterhouse, and subsequently at Gottin on returning from which he was entered at

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