184 Life and Letters of Francis Gallon 



I sipt and next a bumper tried, 



My friends' prediction scorning, 



Then reeled and told them all they lied, 



But ah ! the following morning. 



Then go, Deceiver go, 



Those tongues whose lust could make them 



Trust one so false, so low 



Deserve salines to slake them. 



Away, thy charms their bloom have shed, 

 Now failing to adorn thee, 

 While men who loved thee once have fled 

 And teach the world to scorn thee. 



Milk Punch, bland hypocrite be gone 

 And my worst wishes to ye 

 You ne'er do good to any one, 

 But screw the hands that brew ye. 

 Then go, Deceiver go, 

 etc. etc. 



Some of these points are again illustrated in Galton's six months 

 as a bachelor at Cambridge. He returned there on Feb. 13, 1844, 

 and reports to his father that he is working hard at medicine and that 

 Dr Bond has offered him a clinical clerkship on the next vacancy. 

 He encloses the following Bulletin : 



Case of Francis Galton. 



Year. 1844. Trade. Cantab. 



Month. Feb. Disease. Extreme appetite. 



The patient states that he left Leamington by the coach on Feb. 3 rd : the day 

 was cold and rainy. At Southran he purchased some captain's biscuits which he 

 continued eating till Northampton, at which place he invested in a pork pie. His 

 appetite continued extreme even more so than natural. Present state. Face flushed, 

 which he accounts for by a violent walk, appetite remarkable. 



[March 6, 1844.] 

 MY DEAR FATHER, 



Will you tell Bessy that I received her letter just after I had put my last 

 into the post and thank her much for it. I see young Barclay occasionally we have 

 breakfasted at each other's rooms and are good friends when we meet, but I have 

 now so little spare time at my disposal being the whole morning in attendance on 

 medical lectures etc., that I have been unable to go out much lately and consequently 

 have rarely met him. I get more and more fond of medicine every day. I am trying 

 some new ways of taking cases, or rather the outlines of cases by lines drawn under 

 each particular symptom and varying according to its severity, every day or every 



