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at Frankfort, and he was invited to repair thither; but his in- 
flexible attachment to his king made him decline the invitation. 
Medicine also attracted his attention, at first as lying in the cir- 
cle of the sciences connected with natural history, but afterwards 
in the latter years of his life, that he might be enabled to judge 
of the bodily sufferings of himself and others; so that medical 
books were his favourite reading, and conversation on medical 
subjects what he preferred to every other. Ever ready to afford 
assistance, he was happy, when*he visited a sick friend, to be 
able to give medical advice, and also to judge of his own situa- 
tion which he often thought precarious. ‘The danger of such 
an inclination, which ean never lead to any thing further 
than empiricism, is evident. His best friends, among whom we 
may reckon the veteran of the healing art, the venerable Dr. 
Kapp, at Dresden, sometimes reproved him for this; but it re- 
mained his favourite hobby-horse. He had made a very witty 
table of diseases according to the stages of human life, from in- 
fancy to old age: he was a sworn enemy to vinegar and all kinds 
of milk diet, hut a determined beef-eater. In other respects he 
lived very temperately, drank but little wine, and was especially 
and anxiously careful about warm clothing and warm rooms. He 
first visited Carlsbad, when a boy of only fourteen years of age, 
and had since been there forty-one times. Here, even in the 
latest part of the autumn, he always acquired new strength. 
Had not imperious circumstances hindered him this time from 
visiting sooner the salutary fountain, which had become abso- 
lutely necessary to him, he would perhaps have still lived. He 
was fond of travelling, and spoke with emotion and pleasure of 
his visit to Paris in 1802, where he was received with the greatest 
respect. Though not indifferent to external distinctions, to the 
diplomas of foreign academies and learned societies, he never 
sought or asked for them, and in conversation never attached any 
value to them. However, he was justly proud of being a mem- 
ber of the Institute of France, and of the Wernerian Society in 
England. Evenon his death-bed he learnt with joy from his former 
pupil and faithful friend the Professor- of Natural History at 
Edinburgh (Jamieson), that not only several mineralogical so- 
cieties flourished in Great Britain, but that professorships of 
mineralogy on Werner’s principles were founded at Oxford, 
Cambridge, London, Glasgow, Cork, Dublin, and Belfast. At 
his suggestion a union of friends of natural philosophy and mi- 
neralogy was formed last winter in Dresden, where Wermer him- 
self presided. He was in the best sense of the expression a citi- 
zen of the world. Every newspaper that he read, excited in 
him a pious wish for the happiness of mankind, for truth and 
Justice, In the last days of his life, his eye was most frequently 
directed 
