Sketches of the lives and works of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary / by Edward Mansfield Brockbank.

  • Brockbank, E. M. (Edward Mansfield), 1866-
Date:
1904
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Credit: Sketches of the lives and works of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary / by Edward Mansfield Brockbank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it to pass unnoticed in others, even in those for whom he entertained the highest esteem. This outspokenness evidently offended people, but in the more intimate relations of life he was greatly beloved, and through the whole of his conduct there was seen a strain of manly sincerity. He was a very learned man, not only in his own profession, but in classical, in which he had few equals, and in historical and philosophical knowledge, in which he had not many superiors. But though he acquired information with remarkable facility, he did not communicate it with equal ease. This was chiefly owing to early habits of verbal and grammatical criticism, in which he greatly indulged. He was extremely nice in his choice of words—he would use no expressions that were not exactly fitted to his ideas, and in his dislike of every- thing strained or affected, he had declared war against some of the natural ornaments of speech. His temper was so open, and his conduct so little affected by the opinions or prejudices of others, that he evidently did not attain that measure of success in life which his friend thought his due. References. Memoir by Dr. Currie, Mem. Lit. and Phil. Soc„ Vol. IL, p. 397, 1783 ; Renaud's Short History.