[2] He settled in London as a physician, and was for a time attached to the Westminster General Dispensary; he had to take respites from medical work.
He had married his cousin, Elizabeth Burder, in 1828, and his father George had passed the last four years of his life under their roof.
[1] He was a contributor to the Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine (1833–5), and the materials for one of his articles (‘Headache’) were drawn from his own experience.
After he had retired from his practice, a suggestion from James Hope induced him to author the letters, which eventually appeared in the Evangelical Magazine for 1836.
[1] Composed at Tilford in Surrey, they were popular reading material among 19th century British medical students and physicians.