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riance on a point of practice. By the accidental over- 

 turn of his carriage at some distance from Edinburgh, 

 Dr Gregory suffered the misfortune of a broken 

 arm ; but although the accident was not announced 

 to Dr Wright, he was in daily attendance at the 

 door of his friend's house, to make his personal inqui- 

 ries as to the progress of his recovery. When they 

 next met, Dr Gregory reproached Dr Wright for 

 the ceremonious distance he had observed in his visits, 

 and the unwonted recurrence to a form of etiquette in 

 leavi.ig his daily ticket at his door,— so inconsist- 

 ent with their long habits of intimacy and friendship. 

 Dr Wright, in his turn, took his friend to task, for 

 not acquainting him with the accident as soon as it 

 occurred. To this Dr Gregory replied, that he was 

 resolved at all hazards to be bled, and that he knew 

 Dr Wright would have strenuously resisted the ope- 

 ration. He added, that he had in feet sustained a 

 copious evacuation, and in proof of the efficacy of the 

 practice, he called upon his friend to witness the ra- 

 pid progress of his recovery. This practical defence 

 of venesection brought to the mind of Dr Wright 

 no conviction of its propriety in the case of his friend, 

 to whom he remarked, that he might think himself 

 fortunate if he escaped the more serious evils of water 

 in the chest, after doing so much violence to the 

 course of nature. Before the death of Dr Wright, 

 Dr Gregory began to experience the symptoms of 

 hydrothorax. He complained of breathlessness and 

 fatigue after climbing Dr Wright's stairs, and was 



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