LIFE, TOWN AND COUNTRY. 101 1 



that there is no foundation in nature for the 

 existence of a choleric temperament, unless it be 

 regarded as a modification of the sanguine with 

 a large brain ; and that the melancholic is a 

 modification of the phlegmatic, with a predomi- 

 nance of the brain over the other organs, as in 

 Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Zimmerman, Cowper, 

 Collins, and some others ; in whom it was proba- 

 bly induced by over exertion of the nervous 

 system, aided by an undue development of cau- 

 tiousness and the absence of hope. 



As for the rest, the cerebral or intellectual 

 temperament is more common in cities and large 

 towns than in the country among scientific, 

 literary, and professional men, including artists 

 and the higher mechanics, than among servants, 

 day labourers, small farmers, common mechanics, 

 soldiers, seamen, boxers, and wrestlers, in whom 

 the thorax and muscular organs are more fully 

 developed than the brain, because more exer- 

 cised, as proved by phrenological measurements. 



Theory of Spasmodic Diseases. 



It was said by a writer in Blackwood's Maga- 

 zine, that the discovery of a remedy for hydropho- 

 bia would be worthy of a great national reward, 

 or even a title of nobility.* But are we not 



* Alas ! such is the present standard of morality, even among 

 the most civilized nations, that the man who should invent some 



