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to say that there were not such liars in the world, except their 

 patients. A relation of hi?, one day, asking his opinion of a 

 certain work on fevers, he observed, ' I do not like fever curers ; 

 we may guide a fever — we cannot cure it. What would you think 

 of a pilot who attempted to quell a storm ? Either position is 

 equally absurd. We must steer the ship as well as we can in a 

 storm ; and in a fever we can only employ patience and judicious 

 measures, to meet the difficulties of the case.' '* 



Turn we now to the second article in our list, — Nuga^ 

 Canorce; and we are satisfied that our readers will agree 

 with us in the correctness of our guess. It is the produc- 

 tion, at any rate, of one who has lived much in the medical 

 world, and no unobservant spectator of the vices and vir- 

 tues, the feelings and failings of contemporary jDractitioners, 

 possessing tact to '' catch the manners living as they rise." 

 In short, it is a pleasant jeu d'espritj and we hail it as 

 an omen, that in these " piping times of peace," the days of 

 Garth, Goldsmith, and Darwin may be revived, and that 

 the medical fraternity may again employ their leisure hours 

 in amusements for which their education and intercourse 

 with society so well qualify them. 



After a humorous preface, in which the removal of the 

 College of Physicians to Pall-mall East is lamented, the 

 work, for very satisfactory reasons, is dedicated to the 

 Presidents of the two Colleges and to the Master of the 

 Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1927 — and as a 

 character in one of Foote's farces wishes he were to be born 

 *' fifty years hence," so should we like to have a peep at the 

 '^ Clines and Coopers," the " Halfords and Warrens," of 

 that day. We wish, with the author, that they may be 

 as distinguished ornaments of their profession as those of 

 our own. 



That the old college should still be preserved for medical 

 purposes, it is proposed to turn it into a " Medical Mau- 

 soleum," where the " Medical Fraternity are to be buried 

 on the same terms as the Parisians are at Pere la Chaise — 

 and then follow the supposed Epitaphs of the present race 

 of the " Medici." Due honour is done to learning and 

 talents ; while quackery, in all its ramifications, meets with 

 just castigation. The names of Heberden, Turton, and 

 Baker are noticed with the respect to which their virtues 

 and acquirements entitle them. 



Passing from these, we are introduced to an eccentric of 

 the old school. 



