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OBITUARY. 



DR. GEORGE PFEIFFER, a respectable 

 young physician, died in Philadelphia, in the month 

 of August last. He received the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine in the College of Philadelphia, in the year 

 1791, on which occasion he defended an ingenious 

 inaugural dissertation, " On the Gout." 



Accounts have just been received of the death of 

 Dr. Thomas Percival, of Manchester, in England. 

 This gentleman practised physic, for many years, 

 with much reputation, and is well known as the author 

 of a great number of tracts and works, relating to 

 medicine and other sciences, and also to polite litera- 

 ture. He was a man of learning and judgment, and 

 in private life extremely amiable and benevolent. 



Of the celebrated Dr. Joseph Priestley, who died 

 at Northumberland, in Pennsylvania, on the 6th of 

 February last, several interesting biographical sketches 

 have already been published, particularly by the very 

 respectable Dr. John Aiken, Mr. Belsham, and Mr. 

 Toulmin, all of England. It will hardly be doubted, 

 that a character so distinguished for his learning, his 

 discoveries, and his virtues, as Dr. Priestley was, will 

 command the attention of many other writers. The 



