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exertions of labour and afliduity. It was during 

 this time of bufinefs and occupation, that he 

 prepared and publifhed his Pradical Syllabus 

 for the Ufc of Students, which, if it had been 

 finifhed, would have proved a very ufeful book 

 of pradicej and likewile, thofe admired Ledures 

 on the Duties, Office, and Studies of a Phy- 

 fician. 



Dr. Gregory, for many years before his death, 

 felt the approach of difeafe, and apprehended, 

 from an hereditary and cruel gout, the premature 

 death, which, indeed, too foon put a period 

 ro his life and ufefulnefs. In this anxious 

 expetftation, he had prepared that admirable 

 proof of paternal folicitude and fenfibility, '* A 

 Father's Legacy to his Daughters." But for feme 

 days, and even that preceding his death, he 

 had been as well as ufual ; at midnight, he 

 was left in good fpirits by Dr. Johnftone, late 

 Phyfician in Worcefter, at that time his Clinical 

 Clerk ; yet, at nine o'clock in the morning of 

 the tenth of February 1773, he was found dead 

 in his bed,* 



• He too, Dr. Johnftone, junior, of Worcefter, has lately- 

 fallen a much lamented martyr to a noble difcharge of 

 duty, in attending the prifoners ill of a fever in Worcefter 

 jail (17S3). He attained, at an early period, to great 

 and deferved eminence in hi? profefllon : and will be ever 

 regretted as a phyfician of great ability and genius, and 

 as one of the moft pleafing and benevolent of men ; pre- 

 maturely fpatched from his friends and country, whea 

 become highly agreeable and ufeful to them. 



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