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of disease. The Essay on Delirium Tremens had a signal influence. 

 The description of the symptoms is very striking, and the views adopted 

 go far towards reducing this affection, which had been thought by many 

 to have found its specific in opium, to the category of self-limited dis- 

 eases. The dissertation on Croup drew the distinction between the 

 cases with membranous exudation, and those lighter maladies, often 

 confounded with them, in so clear a way, that from the time of its 

 appeai'ance the vital difference between these forms of disease has been 

 universally recognized amongst us. His observations with reference 

 to hasmoptysis, based on long-continued observation of persons who had 

 been subject to it, served to modify some of the sweeping conclusions 

 which had been drawn from the wholesale observation of hospital 

 cases. The style of these and all his writings is plain, easy, and with- 

 out any affectation or display. He observed carefully, reflected ma- 

 turely, and then, having fully made up his mind, recorded simply. In 

 his oral teaching he was clear, minute, and explicit, thinking nothing 

 of effect or eloquence, but only how to teach his pupils to know and to 

 treat diseases. As a practitioner he came very near that golden mean 

 whei'e there is faith enough in remedies to leave no means untried 

 that are likely to be useful, and distrust enough of all questionable 

 agencies to guard against the abuse of powerful measures. None could 

 fail to recognize his kindness, his gentleness, his conscientious devo- 

 tion to the patient; so that the success which his professional skill 

 deserved was made sure by his personal qualities. 



His great liberality and candor made him more freely eclectic and 

 generously tolerant than many others whose observation is not more 

 exact, and whose intellects are not clearer than was his own. He 

 would sometimes listen where another might think he could employ 

 his time better ; but this was a proof of his fair and evenly-balanced 

 nature, which was always patient with the convictions of others. The 

 verdict of the whole profession to which he belonged, and of the com- 

 munity in the midst of which he lived and labored and died, is, that he 

 was a good and wise man, worthy of love and honor and lasting 

 remembrance. He was faithful to all his duties, a sound thinker, a 

 devoted practitioner, an able writer and teacher; spiritually-minded, 

 yet abounding in practical sense ; with an intellect open to wide ranges 

 of thought, yet willing to expend his life in the round of daily services 

 traced out for him by his calling, — a man whose virtues were acknowl- 

 edged by all who knew him, and who leave? behind liim none but 

 gx'acious recollections. 



