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Darwin Correspondence Project

To T. L. Brunton   10 March 1880

Down | Beckenham. Kent—

Mar. 10/80

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged for your kind present of your Pharmacology, which I am sure that I shall read with interest. All medical subjects fascinate me, owing I suppose to so much doctorial blood flowing in my veins—1

yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

Brunton sent his Pharmacology and therapeutics, or, Medicine past and present (Brunton 1880); a copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin, and his grandfather Erasmus Darwin were physicians.

Bibliography

Brunton, Thomas Lauder. 1880. Pharmacology and therapeutics; or, Medicine past and present. The Goulstonian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1877. London: Macmillan and Co.

Summary

Thanks for copy of TLB’s Pharmacology [1880].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12529
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 143: 169
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12529,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12529.xml

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