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by lamentable mishappe, being drowned in the 

 King's Bath." 



[13] They are far too many for such a paper as 

 this, and the names would but have presented a 

 dense mass of persons useful in their day, but now 

 nearly forgotten, with little to distinguish one of 

 them from another. I cannot, however, but admit 

 that others may view this part of the subject in a 

 different light, and I am quite willing to allow that a 

 history of medical practice in such a place as Bath 

 might form the subject of a book of no mean interest ; 

 nor ought I, perhaps, to have passed over such names 

 as Charlton, Sutherland, Lucas, and Frazer, to say 

 nothing of Pring and other medical writers of the 

 present centnry. 



[14] Dr. William Falconer left one only son, the 

 Rev. Thomas Falconer, a very eminent scholar, as 

 the publication of the Oxford Strabo shows, and 

 who is known also by his Bampton Lectures and 

 other valuable writings. I cannot name him without 

 expressing, in strong terms, my own regard and 

 veneration for his memory — justum et tenacem pro- 

 positi virum : but kind and benevolent withall, in 

 no common degree. But he was, perhaps, of too 

 independent a spirit for a world like this, and we 



