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on him is sufficiently proved by the maturity which he had confessedly attained, when he took the degree of Doctor of Physic in the 22d year of his age. The subject of his Inaugural Dissertation, which he publicly defended on the 12th of June 1771, was “De Perspiratione Insensibili,”—and in the discussion of this subject, he manifested an intimate acquaintance with the views and reasonings of all the best writers on the animal economy, and seems, on the whole, to have acquiesced in the physiological doctrines of Haller, as far as they coincided with Cullen.
After he received his degree, he studied some time at Paris, and, before his return to Scotland, travelled to Italy with an invalid. long duration. His absence was not of He became a licentiate of the College of Physicians on the 5th of November 1771, and was admitted a fellow of that College on the 3d of November 1772. The number and respectability of Dr Hamilton's connections facilitated his introduction to practice, and their influence obtained his appointment as Physician to several of the most important Institutions in the city. In July 1773, he was appointed Physician to George Heriot’s Hospital. About the same time he was elected by the
