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were acceptable, by reason of his skill, his assiduous 

 attentions, and the agreeable, though dignified, deport- 

 ment of his manners. His numerous patients were all 

 his affectionate friends, and enthusiastic admirers. He 

 enjoyed, moreover, the rare felicity of having his merits 

 acknowledged, even by those who were most envious of 

 his reputation, or success in life. His talents were, un- 

 questionably, highly respectable; he had enlarged and 

 strengthened his mind by much and various reading: 

 but, above all, he was a careful observer of the forms 

 and phenomena of diseases, and of the effects of medi- 

 cines. The writer of these lines was well acquainted 

 with the friend whose death he deplores. In his fre- 

 quent intercourse with him, he admired him for the 

 candour with which he related the facts that he had col- 

 lected, and the observations which his extensive busi- 

 ness had enabled him to make. He had too much 

 sense to be misled by the idle, ever-changing, theories 

 of physicians: he placed too high a value upon truth 

 not to acknowledge his failure of success ; and he was 

 too intimately acquainted with medicine not to perceive 

 and deplore the still immature and feeble state of this 

 most useful and dignified profession. 



Though still a young man, we believe under thirty- 

 seven years of age. Doctor Conrad would have 

 ranked high in his profession, in any portion of the 

 United- States, or in any part of the world. The death 

 of such a man is a public loss : a loss not easily re- 

 paired. Long will tills loss be felt and acknowledged 

 by the inhabitants of Winchester, and of the surrounding 

 country, through an extent of many miles. To his 



