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corporated society — which oiBcc he retained to the 

 time of his death. 



Having taken a view of his public and private ser- 

 vices as a physician, let us now consider him as a 

 man of general science and literature. His classical 

 learning, gained at school, Vi^as much enlarged by 

 subsequent reading. He became an excellent scholar. 

 The Latin, he understood so well, as occasionally to 

 hold conversations in it. He acquired enough of the 

 French language to converse without difficulty, and 

 was well acquainted with the German. In the charac- 

 ter of an accomplished physician, is combined a varie- 

 ty of sciences. Anatomy was Wistar's fort, but he was 

 well versed in Chymistry, 15otany, Mineralogy, and 

 History, in all its branches. As appurtenant to his pro- 

 fession, he had reflected deeply on the human mind. 

 Its connexion with the body, the manner of its being 

 acted on by matter, and the cure of its maladies, he 

 considered as desiderata in medicine. That these ob- 

 jects had engaged much of his thought, is evident. 

 For, when a student at Edinburgh, I find that he pro- 

 posed questions concerning them, to Doctor Cullen ; 

 his Thesis, " dc Aninio Hcmisso," shows the same 

 train of thinking, and in the last valedictory address 

 to his pupils, he exhorts them to investigate the sub- 



