MEMOIRS
OF
JOHN ABERNETHY,
WITH A VIEW OF
HIS LECTURES, HIS WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER;
WITH ADDITIONAL
EXTRACTS FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS,
NOW FIRST PUBLISHED;

BY GEORGE MACILWAIN, F.R.C.S.
AUTHOR OF "MEDICINE AND SURGERY ONE INDUCTIVE SCIENCE,"
&c. &c. &c.
"The evil that men do, lives after them:
The good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakspeare.

Third Edition.
LONDON:
HATCHARD AND CO. PICCADILLY.
1856.


The Author reserves the right of publishing a Translation of this Work in France.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. MALLETT, WARDOUR STREET.


TO THE MEMORY
OF
JOHN ABERNETHY,
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
BY
ONE OF HIS NUMEROUS
AND
GRATEFUL PUPILS,
THE AUTHOR.