148 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



with tenderness and affection. To you he desired me to con- 

 vey his last kind affectionate remembrances. You will, I am 

 sure, value them. 



" A fourth edition of the work on fever is just finished ; 

 happily he lived to complete it. The publication will take 

 place in a very short time. The last chapter of the second 

 volume is new and highly interesting ; it relates to the late 

 fever at Gibraltar, and is, I think, most beautiful. The theory 

 of non-contagion is deprecated in the strongest terms ! 



" Adieu, my dear Doctor; continue to me the friendship 

 you ever had for my father. We return to Bath after the 

 interment, which takes place here. Liverpool will again, in a 

 few months, be our ultimate residence. Accept, my dear Sir, 

 the sincere and affectionate wishes of yours very truly, 



" W. Wallace Curihe." 



" P. S. — In reading your letter, I was forcibly struck with 

 the similarity of the case of the poor man you mention, and 

 that of my father."" 



Some time before this period, Dr Wright had been 

 warmly importuned by his friend Dr Garthshore to 

 break up his establishment in Edinburgh, and devote 

 himself to the performance of a duty, of a very deli- 

 cate and distressing nature. 



Mr W. Garthshore, M. P., one of the Lords of 

 the Admiralty, and the son of Dr Wright's friend, 

 had married a lady of large fortune, who died in giving 

 birth to twin sons. The infants did not long survive 

 their mother, and through them Mr Garthshore 

 succeeded to his wife's fortune. His mind was unable 

 to sustain so heavy a bereavement, and a permanent 

 aberration of intellect was the consequence. While 

 there was yet a hope of returning reason, Dr Garth- 



