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general disposed to confide in him. Nor was their 

 confidence disappointed. His old friend and precep- 

 tor, Doctor Jones, took the most delicate means of 

 afTording; him an opportunity of making himself known. 

 Tliis was all he wanted. His works spoke for them- 

 selves. His mind was eminently formed for a profes- 

 sion, in which precipitancy is danger, and mistake 

 is death. No man ever performed his duty to his 

 patients with more scrupulous integrity. He spared 

 no pains in collecting all the symptoms from which 

 the disease might be ascertained. His visits were 

 long, his questions numerous and minute. He paus- 

 ed before he decided, but was seldom wrong — and 

 his mind once satisfied, he was not easily moved from 

 his purpose. In consultation with his brethren he 

 was courteous and attentive ; never overbearing, but 

 always stating, with modest firmness, the result of 

 his own reflections. His patients he never failed to 

 attach to him. How indeed could it be otherwise, 

 when to the sedulous attentions of a Physician, was 

 added the sympathy and anxiety of a friend. Though 

 much given to hospitality, he never neglected the du- 

 ties of his profession. Being eminent, both in medi- 

 cine, and surgery, his practice soon became so exten- 

 sive, that he was in the habit of walking ten miles 

 daily. Ho would often rise from the convivial tabic 



