the late Maxwell Garlhshore, M.D. 331 



is dedicated with much gentlemanly good humour and un- 

 i'cigned respect to his early and unchangeable friend the 

 late Sir Georsre Baker, and does no discredit to the author's 

 head or heart. All his friendships, indeed, being disin- 

 terested, were permanent, and he had the happiness of dis- 

 covering near the same period the talents, and patronizing 

 the merit, of the late Dr. Pulteney, who at his instance 

 obtained an Edinburgh degree without having regularly 

 attended any college lectures. It would, we fear, be a 

 vain eflbrt to look for such exallcd principles of friendship 

 among anv three living physicians, as what distinguished 

 durino" their respective lives Sir George Baker, Dr. Pulteney, 

 and Dr. Garlhshore. All of them were fortunate praclitioners: 

 but Dr. Pultenev realized a large fortune in a country town ; 

 Dr. Garthshore distributed one to the ])oor of the metropolis : 

 the former devoted his leisure hours to botanical researches j 

 the latter to patronize science, and support scientific or 

 humane institutions. 



After Dr. G. was established as a practising physician in 

 London (about 1764) and a licentiate of the Royal College of 

 Physicians, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and 

 of the Society of Antiquaries, the meetings of which he 

 regularly attended, and was not perhaps absent one night, 

 except the two meetings previous to his death, during the 

 last 40 years. His insatiable desire of knowledge and his 

 intellectual energies continued to the last ; he read every- 

 new publication of merit either on medicine, chemistry,' 

 general science or divinity ; and he was familiar with all 

 the new discoveries in natural philosophy, anatomy, or the' 

 practice of medicine. Many of the modern novelties, in- 

 deed, he could trace to their original authors ; .the curious 

 and obscure work of Wallace on the numbers of mankind, 

 which perhaps gave birth to the famous Essay on the prln- 

 ci|)le of Population, he had examined when writing on- 

 " Numerous Births ;" and the internal use of cantharides, 

 which has been brouLdit forward as an original discovery in 

 the lyih century, he well knew was ably discussed by Dr. 

 Greenfield, a physician of the 17th, and strongly recommend- 

 ed by him in gleet, leucorrhosa, &c. The revived doctrmes 

 respecting the functions of the liver, use of digitalis, sea- 

 bathing, 8cc. were equally known to him from their original 

 sources. Hence, he was at all times able and willing to avail: 

 himself of every thing plausible that was offered as likely to 

 miticate the sum ot human suffering, or improve the healing 

 art. Yet, notwithstanding his indefatigable and extensive 

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