Excerpt from The Works of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie to With an Autobiography, Vol. 1 of 3
I was the recipient of an ever continuing stream of affectionate kindnesses, stopped only by his death, would alone render me unfit to make a judicial estimate of his character.
But as this edition of his works ought not to go forth without some notice of his life, and of the influence it had on his fellow-men, I have taken the opportunity to put on record what was thought of him by others. His life is indeed written in his works; but the interesting autobiography which has been placed at my disposal will give a further insight into his character.
Those who read his works attentively will see how he educated himself for the duties he was about to undertake, how he acquired the information necessary to make him, what he lived to become - one of the most perfect masters of his art, in this or in any other country, not only as a man of science, a surgeon of the greatest sagacity and of never-failing resources, and a most impressive teacher (for it was impossible for the dullest to listen to his lessons without receiving instruction), but a most accomplished gentleman.
The autobiography closes about the time he resigned the office of surgeon to St. George's Hospital, when the medal (the engraving of which forms the frontispiece to this volume) was presented to him by his pupils and medical friends as a testimony of their gratitude for the mode in which he had performed all the duties connected with that institution.
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