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MEMOIE OF THE LATE MR. JOHN JUST, OF BtJRY. 



It will naturally suggest itself to the minds of all who have 

 watched the physical consequences of a mind o'erwrought, — 

 that these whelming and unremitting labours must, sooner 

 or later, tell on even the hardiest frame and strongest con- 

 stitution. And such was the inevitable consequence in this 

 case. So long back as July, 1843, Mr. Just writes, — "I feel 

 like a breaking-down horse, a want of putting-out to grass 

 for a short period, to repair my exhausted energies." After 

 a month's holiday, spent in the North, he writes,—" Being 

 returned from * grass' to *gear,' with the gain of 71b. of 

 animal matter, as a store to consume during the current 

 half-year in mental pursuits, I have straightened up arrears." 

 In this way half-year after half-year passed over, making . 

 every vacation necessary to repair the wear and tear under- 

 gone. Close confinement, a hard-worked if not an over- 

 wrought brain, and a want of sufficient bodily exercise, had 

 the usual result of inducing a sluggish state of the liver, 

 with other concomitant derangements of the digestive func- 

 tions. For the last two or three years he was subject to 

 attacks of faintness, especially when, during his vacation 

 excursions, he over-exerted himself, and he was sometimes 

 obliged to seat himself on the river's brink till the attack 

 passed off. Usually he was most liable to these attacks for 

 the first two or three days of the excursion, and at times they 

 unhinged him, and he became very nervous. He generally 

 attributed them to indigestion, and at times he said he was 

 sure he had disease of the heart. He became better after 

 taking considerable exercise. Last Easter his fishing excur- 

 sion was to Whitewell, and there he did not recover after a 

 few days as usual ; he could not retain his food, and appa- 

 rently derived no real benefit from this excursion ; and he 

 observed, that it was the first time he had ever come home 

 with his strength unrecruited. Still he fished as keenly as 

 ever ; and he manifested his love of science to the last. 

 A friend calling to see him on the 21st September, on his 



