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specimen of a well-dressed and well-bred gentleman. As a 

 practitioner he ranked in the first class, and he was one of the 

 physicians who attended King George the Third during his afflict- 

 ing and protracted malady. 



*' RICHARD GRINDALL, Esq. 



* Eamus quo ducet gula.' 



" Within this place Dick Grindall lies, 

 Who was a rare game chicken. 

 So, so, friend Dick, an old chum cries, 

 The worms have pretty picking ! 



No Surgeon better lov'd himself; 



He lov'd old rum and brandy 

 As much as misers do their pelf, 



Or children sugar-candy. 



And as for eatables — in short. 



He lov'd both roast and boil'd ; 

 Fish, flesh, or fowl, of any sort, 



If not by cooking spoil'd. 



But though full well he lov'd good cheer. 



It was a venial fault ; 

 Since Reason's feast to him was dear, 



Season'd with Attic Salt, 



** He was an excellent surgeon of his day ; that is, fifty years 

 before Abemethy or Cooper was dreamt of. He was also a great 

 oddity, but a perfect gentleman in his appearance and manner ; 

 never seen, by any accident, but in a well-powdered wig, silk 

 stockings, and shoe-buckles. He practised in the City, when the 

 city aristocracy resided within its walls, and Haberdashers' Hall, 

 in the season, assembled all the wit, wisdom, and wealth of London 

 merchants, in a sort of conclave of saltatory civic magnificos." 



We just remember him, and that, after a long illness, he 

 went round in his carriage to return thanks for ** obliging 

 inquiries," leaving his card, on which was written, *' the 

 remains of Dick Grindall." 



The third and last work we have to notice, comes more 

 legitimately before us, and is a novelty in medical literature — 

 a sort of Sketch Book, containing much entertaining anec- 

 dote, that makes the information it contains extremely 

 amusing. 



The work is divided into three parts, as the alliterated 

 title quaintly informs us — Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs. 

 The first is a chronological record, giving, as it were, a 

 "bird's eye view" of the most interesting events in the 

 history of medicine, from the time of the conquest up to the 



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