[1] His medical studies commenced in the house of a general practitioner, whence in 1821 he removed to Edinburgh.
In 1822 he won the medal offered by George IV to the University of Edinburgh for a Latin ode on the occasion of his visit to Scotland.
In 1824 he was admitted to the degree of MD, after publishing an inaugural dissertation, De Morbo Comitiali, and in the same year he brought out a new edition of William Harvey's De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis, with additions and corrections.
He contributed to the Transactions of the Geological Society of Cornwall a dissertation On the use of Iron among the Earlier Nations of Europe, iv.
of Davies Gilbert's Parochial History of Cornwall he furnished A Memoir of William of Worcester, and an essay On the Etymology of Cornish Names.