334 NugcB ChirurgicoB^ S^c. 



"• CHARLES GOWER, M.D. 



' Discours de bons mots !' 

 " Ye sons of humour, of frolic, and fun, 

 Tliis stone will inform you that Gower is gone. 

 Poor Gower I eccentric, facetious, and funny, 

 Lik'd nothing so well as other men's money. 

 Alas ! he is gone — 'tis hard to say where, 

 The victim of mirth, imprudence, and care. 

 Where'er he is gone, his companions he'll smoke, 

 For, cost what it will — he will have his joke. 

 " * I knew him well, Horatio !'" exclaims our Author — " * a 

 fellow of infinite jest !' — Chairman of the St. Alban's Club, where 

 oft ' he set the table on a roar.' — And who did not know this 

 eccentric oddity ? Gower had considerable talents, but they were 

 directed every way but the right. He made medicine a plaything, 

 never being steady in professional pursuits. He wrote several 

 singular books : one he entitled * Auxiliaries to Medicine ;' ano- 

 ther, ' The Art of Painting ;' both of which pourtray the character 

 of their author. His unsteadiness led him into difficulties, and he 

 died in obscurity." 



*« DALMAHOY. 



' Thrice happy were those golden days of old, 

 When dear as burgundy p'tisans were sold.' 



" Dalmahoy sold infusions and lotions, 

 Decoctions, and gargles, and pills ; 

 Electuaries, powders, and potions, 



Spermaceti, salts, scammony, squills. ; 



Horse-aloes, burnt alum, agaric, 



Balm, benzoine, blood-stone, and dill ; 



Castor, camphor, and acid tartaric, 

 With specifics for every ill. 



But with ail his specifics in store 



Death on Dalmahoy one day did pop ; 



And although he had doctors a score. 

 Made poor Dalmahoy shut up his shop." 



" HENRY REVELL REYNOLDS, M.D. 



* Os placidum moresque benigni.' 



" Here well-dressed Revell Reynolds lies, 

 As great a beau as ever ! 

 We may perhaps see one as wise, 

 But sure a smarter never. 



" Dr. Reynolds may be considered as the link between the 

 ancient and modern costume of the Faculty: to the last, he wore 

 a well-powdered wig and a silk coat. He was an excellent 



