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«*CADOGAN. 



*' Universal temperance in eating and drinking has been con- 

 sidered as particularly incumbent on a physician, in every period 

 of his practice. It is a virtue he is frequently obliged to inculcate 

 on his patients ; and his doctrines will have little effect if they be 

 not regularly exemplified in his own conduct. 



" Dr. Cadogan, however, thought it right to try all things, and 

 considered it his duty to speak experimentcilly on both sides of the 

 question, to qualify himself to say, in the language of Dido, — 

 ' Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.' 



** Thus, dining one day at a College dinner, after discoursing 

 most elegantly and forcibly on abstinence, temperance, and par- 

 ticularly against pie-crust and pastry, he is reported to have ad- 

 dressed a brother M.D. in the following terms : ' Pray, doctor, is 

 that a pigeon pie near you V ' Yes, sir.' ' Then I will thank 

 you to send me the hind-quarters of two pigeons, some fat of the 

 beef-steak, a good portion of the pudding-crust, and as much 

 gravy as you can spare !'" 



*' BLAIR. 



*' ' We physicians were always politicians,' was a favourite 

 expression of Warren's, but nevertheless, there are very few 

 instances of medical men embroiling themselves in political 

 troubles. 



" Dr. Patrick Blair, however, who was in the rebellion of 1745, 

 got himself into Newgate, and was condemned to be hanged. In 

 the British Museum are several of his letters to Sir Hans Sloane, 

 written in prison, soliciting his intercession, and in one of them 

 he writes, ' If you come towards Newgate, I hope you will favour 

 me with a call.' Dr. Mart3'n, the professor of Botany at Cam- 

 bridge, supped with him in Newgate the night previous to his 

 expected execution. Blair had been all along confident that he 

 should be reprieved : Dr. Martyn said, he sat pretty quietly till 

 the clock struck nine, and then he got up and v/alked about the 

 room ; at ten he quickened his pace ; and at twelve, no reprieve 

 coming, he cried out — ' By my troth ! this is carrying the jest too 

 far!' The reprieve, however, came soon after, and in due time a 

 pardon. Blair went afterwards, and settled at Boston in Lincoln- 

 shire, where he practised till his death." 



*' SIR WILLIAM DUNCAN. 



*' Sir William Duncan once met Dr. Thomas Reeve, when the 

 latter was President of the College, and insisted that his name 

 should not follow Reeve's, because he was physician to the king. 

 Reeve asserted his dignity as president, and the consequence was, 

 that each wrote his own prescription (the same they had agreed 

 to) and gave it to the apothecary. 



" There are many instances of medical etiquette being carried 

 to a great extent, but polite etiquette in a sick room was perhaps 



