"Most Honrd Sir Your most affectionate letter of the 8th Aprill shews you in such a light as must warm the heart of a …"

"Others in the pursuits after happiness or pleasure must commonly seek those sources of it which they cannot enjoy wit…"

"Your happiness on the contrary is quite secure because you place it entirely in making others happy and doing those t…"

"I am not yet installed into the order of the great wig, but have gone through all the examinations, & nothing is want…"

"In my last letter to you I proposed to go immediately to London to spend some time in the Hospitals there. I am now a…"

"I have now studied the Theory of medicine & have likewise been taught every thing upon the Practice which can be lear…"

"I should be thoroughly acquainted with the real Practice & this is a thing very different from what can be learned in…"

"I have not had time this last winter to apply to it sufficiently; tho I had the opportunities, my attention was too m…"

"If I go to London to acquire this part of medicine, I may see a good deal of Practice, but I am a stranger there, & h…"

"In the early part of my chymical studies, the author whose works made the most agreeable impression on my mind was Ma…"