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was indisposed ; and found her one day sitting solitary, piously 

 jind pensively musing upon the Bible, when, by some strange acci- 

 dentf his eyes were directed to the passage where Nathan says to 

 David, ' Thou art the Man.' The doctor profited by the kind 

 hint ; and, after a proper time allowed for drawing up articles 

 of capitulation, the lady, on 29th May, 1758, surrendered herself 

 up to all his prescriptions, and the doctor very speedily performed 

 a perfect cure. 



"ta^^ooB^taw PHILIP HECQUET. 



** * C*est un^ er?eur de penser que le sang soit n(;cessaire ^ la 

 conservation de la vie ; on ne pent trop saigner un malade ;* are 

 the words put into the mouth of our doctor, in the character of 

 Sangrado by the facetious Le Sage. Hecquet, both in theory 

 and practice, carried the anti-phlogistic system to a greater extent 

 than any other man, and defended the * boisson* and the bleeding^ 

 .saying, ' J'ai pour garants de mon sentiment, sur le Regime 

 maigre, les medecins les plus fameux, taut anciens que modernes.* 

 He was a conscientious practitioner of his own eccentric doctrines, 

 and it was perfectly consistent with his character, that ' loin 

 d'imputer la mort da chanoine -X la boisson et aux saign^es, ii 

 sortit en disant, d'un air froid, qu'on ne lui avait pas tire assez de 

 sajigy ni fait boire a^sez dcau chaude' 



*' The practice of bleeding was carried to a singular extent in 

 France, and it was the fashion, at one time, to bleed on the oppo- 

 site side to the part affected; if the pain was on the right side, 

 they bled in the left arm, and vice versa. Pierre Brissot produced 

 a civil war in the medical world by writing against the custom, 

 and, in the year 1600, was driven into exile, by edict of the 

 Univei-sity of Paris, for thus opposing the established practice. 



Sir CHARLES SCARBOROUGH 



** Was a man of great versatility of talents ; he wrote a * Treatise 

 on Trigonometry,* and a ' Compendium of Lilly's Grammar ;' gave 

 lectures on mathematics at Cambridge, and on anatomy in London. 

 His epitaph records that he was 



Inter Medicos Hippocrates, 

 Inter Mathematicos Euclides. 



He read the lecture founded by Dr. Caldwell, at Barber-surgeons* 

 Hall, for many years ; where he was the first who attempted to 

 account for muscular strength and motion on geometrical prin- 

 ciples. He was a man of amiable manners and great vivacity of 

 conversation. Seeing the Duchess of Portsmouth eat to excess, 

 he said to her, with his usual frankness, ' Madam, I uill deal \vith 

 you as a physician should do ; you must eat less^ use more exercise, 

 iakej^hysicy or be sick.' 



Dr. PITCAIRN 



" Was a great enemy to quackery and quacks, of whom he used 



