were the first persons who adopted another mode of proceeding. We were at our posts in the hospital daily, and superintended everything; and there was never an urgent case which we did not visit in the evening, and not unfrequently at an early hour in the morning also. This was of as much advantage to the students as it was to the patients and ourselves, and the effect of it was soon perceptible, in the increase of zeal and diligence on their part, and in their increasing numbers. After some time I appointed clinical clerks, one for the patients of Mr. Home (or, as he became soon afterwards, Sir Everard Home) and another for those who were under my care as officiating for Mr. Gunning. I also began to deliver clinical lectures; and I believe that these were the first lectures of this kind which were ever delivered in a London hospital.

I may take this opportunity of saying a few words respecting my friend and colleague Mr. Robert Keate. At the time of which I am speaking, his uncle held the very high and important office of surgeon-general to the army,

and he himself was a deputy-inspector of military hospitals, and assisted his uncle in his official duties. He had been introduced by his uncle to the Royal Family, with whom he was a considerable favourite; was surgeon to the Queen, and to some of the royal dukes and princesses. These various avocations for a considerable time had interfered with his devoting himself so much to the business of the hospital as he would have done otherwise; nevertheless he had already obtained a very considerable practical knowledge of his profession, and was an excellent operator. We acted together as colleagues until I resigned my office as surgeon in the year 1840; and it is, I hope, to the credit of both of us that, during the whole of those thirty-two years, the most perfect harmony and friendship always subsisted between us. We had the most implicit confidence in each other; and not only did we never openly disagree, but I do not believe that either of us entertained even unkind thoughts as to the other. He was, and still is, a perfect gentleman in every sense of the word; kind in his feelings; open, honest,, and upright

in his conduct. His professional knowledge and his general character made him a most useful officer of the hospital: and, now that our game has been played, it is with great satisfaction that I look back to the long and disinterested friendship that existed between us.

For a year or two before I was elected assistant-surgeon at the hospital, Mr. Wilson had been anxious that I should join with him in delivering lectures on surgery, in the theatre in Great Windmill Street, in addition to those delivered by him on anatomy. I had, however, declined to do so, not feeling that either from my knowledge or my position I was equal to the task. On my becoming connected with the hospital, however, the case was altered. I could now refer to my own experience and my own practice, and I had a place in my profession which I had not previously. The consequence was that in the October of 1808, Mr. Wilson and myself began a course of surgical lectures. Mr. Wilson delivered in each course about a dozen lectures, the remainder, and of course the much greater number, being delivered by myself. After the

second year Mr. Wilson retired from the surgical lectures altogether, and from that time the whole of these lectures were given by myself, until I resigned them to Mr. Babington and Mr. Hawkins nearly twenty years afterwards. My lectures were very well attended, not only by the students of our own Anatomical School, but also by those of Mr. Brookes's Anatomical School in Blenheim Street. My stock of knowledge at first must necessarily have been very limited, and for many years my delivery was constrained and awkward. Nevertheless my lectures were very popular. The explanation of this I apprehend to be that whatever information I gave was drawn from or confirmed by my own observation, and not taken from books, and that I was really in earnest in my endeavours to instruct my pupils. I took great pains in the composition of my lectures, referring to and analysing my manuscript notes of cases, and comparing the results at which I had arrived with those recorded by the last surgical writers. At first I wrote about half-a-dozen lectures at full length. But I soon found that it was

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needless, and almost impossible, to pursue this plan as to the entire course, and I therefore contented myself with making pretty full notes, and then abridging them to take with me into the theatre.

Soon after I had begun to deliver surgical lectures, Mr. Wilson, who had now obtained a considerable share of private practice, proposed that I should give a part of each anatomical course also. This necessarily imposed on me a considerable addition to my labours. At nine or ten o'clock in the evening, after my day's work was concluded, I had to arrange my lectures for the following day, and this frequently occupied me until three or four o'clock on the following morning. On the days on which I had no evening lecture, having a pretty large acquaintance, I was very much engaged in dinner society, which, however, I never allowed to interfere with my more serious occupation, being of temperate habits, and always returning home at an early hour.

Besides my business at the hospital, the composition and delivery of my lectures, and the su