PART VI.
BIOGRAPHY.
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF
OF THE
THE LATE DR. JOHN DARWALL,
OF BIRMINGHAM.
BY JOHN CONOLLY, M. D.
OF WARWICK.
SINCE the publication of the preceding volume of
the Transactions, the Association has been deprived,
by a premature death, of a member whose contributions
would, in all probability, frequently have
added value to these pages; a physician whose
learning, experience, and never-ceasing ardour for
knowledge, alike fitted him for promoting some of
the best designs contemplated at the foundation of
this society. That the Transactions should preserve
some record of a physician who had already risen to
great estimation among his provincial brethren, and
whose life was passed in professional labours, and,
eventually, forfeited in their prosecution, is but a
simple act of justice. That such a record should be
made by myself, is but part of a sacred debt of
friendship, due to the memory of one with whose
virtues I had opportunities of becoming thoroughly
acquainted; and whose death I shall not cease to
lament as long as my own existence continues. I
