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useful, and whatever failings, he might as a 

 human being possess, were either shaded or 

 altogether concealed. After my description 

 was finished, I should think it proper to say, 

 that I had never been acquainted with Dr. 

 Heberden, and consequently could neither be 

 dazzled by the splendour of his virtues, from 

 approaching them too nearly, nor influenced in 

 my opinion concerning them, by benefits he had 

 already conferred upon me ; and that standing, 

 as he does, upon the verge of this state of exist- 

 ence, ready to wing his flight to another of 

 glory, his ear must now be closed to the voice 

 of flattery, had he ever listened to that siren, 

 or were I base enough to solicit her aid, in the 

 foolish expectation of receiving from him some 

 future reward. 



I think, my Lord, it has now been shown, 

 that physicians, considered singly, cannot by 

 reason of the discipline of their profession, 

 claim exemption from the moral infirmities, to 

 which the other inhabitants of this country are 

 subject. Is it then to be supposed, that a body 

 of them will always be governed by the strictest 

 rules of justice ? Is it, my Lord, at all consistent 

 with the experience we have of human actions 

 to expect, that those, who may have individually 



