MEMOIRS OF 



rolled on, and his mortal life declined from 

 it's noon. Patients reforted to him, more 

 and more, from every part of the kingdom, 

 and often from the Continent. All ranks, 

 all orders of fociety, all religions leaned 

 upon his power to ameliorate difeafe, and 

 to prolong exiftence. The rigid and 

 fternly pious, who had attempted to re- 

 nounce his aid from a fuppofition that no 

 bleffing would attend the prefcriptions of a 

 fceptic, facrificed, after a time, their fuper- 

 flitious fcruples to their involuntary con- 

 fcioufnefs of his mighty {kill. 



Wealth muft have flowed in rapidly 

 beneath employment of unprecedented 

 extent, at leaft in any country practitioner ; 

 and from the large fums for which he fold 

 the copy-right of his writings, poetic and 

 philofophic. The fweet temper and bene- 

 volence of that long adored wife, for whofe 

 fake he had changed his fphere of action ; 

 the numerous young family which rofe 



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