20 MEMOIR OF BARON HALLER. 



freely, the parties tunmltuously threw themselves 

 into some scenes of pleasure which were very con- 

 trary to his tastes. At first, he himself took an 

 active part in the sport, but being soon checked by 

 an internal monitor, he continued only an unwilling 

 spectator. He perceived with shame and grief, both 

 in himself and his friends, that his senses were 

 reeling, and his reason well nigh extinguished ; and 

 subsequent reflection only adding to his pain, he 

 from that time resolved never again to taste wine, 

 to which resolution he scrupulously adhered till his 

 dying day. 



His master, Duvernoi, making use of the Institutes 

 of Boerhaave in his prelections, HaUer was in- 

 fluenced by a vehement desire to profit by the in- 

 structions of this celebrated man ; and he determined 

 therefore to visit Leyden, that he might derive 

 benefit from a master whose works had greatly as- 

 tonished him, and whose reputation was second to 

 none who had appeared since the revival of science. 



Whilst Boerhaave taught medicine and botany 

 at Leyden, Albinus was his associate in the school 

 of anatomy; and both of these illustrious men con- 

 ferred conspicuous marks of their favour on Hallcr, 

 which excited in his breast the most earnest solici- 

 tude to merit their approbation. But there was 

 another individual, a contemporary of these eminent 

 men, whose influence was, if possible, greater than 

 that of either of them. This was the celebrated 

 Ruysch, who at this time used constantly to frequent 

 his museum, working amidst the innumerable object* 



