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72 HISTOEY OF DENTAL SUKGERY ;
and pathological discovery. The "Muscularity of the Arteries," the "Life
of the Blood," "History of the Human Teeth" and "Diseases of the Teetli"
were among these. He died of angina pectoris immediately after a scientific
discussion, at 8t. George's hospital, in which the conduct of his colleagues
had provoked him, on October IG, 1793.
He was buried privately in the church of St. ilartin 'in the Fields.
Some time after his death his wife desired to erect a monument to his
memory in AA^estminster Abbey, but the fees demanded for permission to
occupy a niche witliin that venerable fane were too great for her reduced
fortune, and she, therefore, abandoned her intention, and 5Ir. Palmer wrote
in this 1835 edition:
"The author of the Hunterian museum needs no other memorial of his
worth than the proud one he has himself erected; nor does he to perpetuate
his fame. Still, it would be a fitting act of respect to his memory from
those who enjoyed the benefits of this rich legacy of his genius, to enroll his
name amongst those of the other gifted men whose worth stands recorded
in Westminster Abbey."
Neither his wife, who wished to commemorate him, in 1706, by a tablet
in Westminster Abbey, nor the editor of this edition, who thought him wor-
thy of such a tablet, suspected that his body would be later removed and
receive the highest honor that England bestows upon her most worthy.
The following lines are an epitaph written by his widow:
Here rests in awful silence, cold and still,
One whom no common sparks of genius fired
Whose reach of thought Nature alone could fill
Whose deep research the love of Truth inspired.
Hunter! If years of toil and watchful care,
If the vast labours of a powerful mind
To soothe the ills humanity must share,
*
Deserve the grateful plaudits of mankind,
Then be each human weakness buried here
Envy would raise to dim a name so bright:
Those specks, which in the orb of day appear,
Take nothing from his warm and welcome light.
The London Dental Eeview, in its April number of 1859, tells us
that in the early part of February of that year, Mr. Frank Buckland, as-
sistant surgeon of the Second Life Guards, noticed an advertisement which
72 HISTOEY OF DENTAL SUKGERY ;
and pathological discovery. The "Muscularity of the Arteries," the "Life
of the Blood," "History of the Human Teeth" and "Diseases of the Teetli"
were among these. He died of angina pectoris immediately after a scientific
discussion, at 8t. George's hospital, in which the conduct of his colleagues
had provoked him, on October IG, 1793.
He was buried privately in the church of St. ilartin 'in the Fields.
Some time after his death his wife desired to erect a monument to his
memory in AA^estminster Abbey, but the fees demanded for permission to
occupy a niche witliin that venerable fane were too great for her reduced
fortune, and she, therefore, abandoned her intention, and 5Ir. Palmer wrote
in this 1835 edition:
"The author of the Hunterian museum needs no other memorial of his
worth than the proud one he has himself erected; nor does he to perpetuate
his fame. Still, it would be a fitting act of respect to his memory from
those who enjoyed the benefits of this rich legacy of his genius, to enroll his
name amongst those of the other gifted men whose worth stands recorded
in Westminster Abbey."
Neither his wife, who wished to commemorate him, in 1706, by a tablet
in Westminster Abbey, nor the editor of this edition, who thought him wor-
thy of such a tablet, suspected that his body would be later removed and
receive the highest honor that England bestows upon her most worthy.
The following lines are an epitaph written by his widow:
Here rests in awful silence, cold and still,
One whom no common sparks of genius fired
Whose reach of thought Nature alone could fill
Whose deep research the love of Truth inspired.
Hunter! If years of toil and watchful care,
If the vast labours of a powerful mind
To soothe the ills humanity must share,
*
Deserve the grateful plaudits of mankind,
Then be each human weakness buried here
Envy would raise to dim a name so bright:
Those specks, which in the orb of day appear,
Take nothing from his warm and welcome light.
The London Dental Eeview, in its April number of 1859, tells us
that in the early part of February of that year, Mr. Frank Buckland, as-
sistant surgeon of the Second Life Guards, noticed an advertisement which
