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Mr. Thomas Gisborne, M.P., died under the 

 care of three of the most celebrated physi- 

 cians of the day, of a complaint similar to 

 that from which Burton was said to be suf- 

 fering. They were called in to see Burton, 

 and confirmed the opinion of his first atten- 

 dant, declaring he could not survive a fort- 

 night. Mr. Osbaldeston visited him constantly 

 with kind and anxious solicitude ; and after 

 all his doctors had pronounced his case to be 

 hopeless, Burton said one morning, " I am 

 not in a consumption, sir, I can give a view 

 halloo as well as ever ; " and he did so. His 

 master told him he might have the advice of 

 any medical man in England. He said he 

 should like to see Doctor Arnold of Leicester, 

 who had attended Mr. Osbaldeston when his 

 leg was fractured. He was called in, and 

 gave the cheering assurance that Burton was 

 no more in consumption than himself, ordered 

 him beef steaks, mutton chops, and port 

 wine. In a fortnight, instead of being carried 

 to his grave, as had been predicted, " Richard 

 was himself again." He lived till the 1 9th 

 of December, 1862, wdien he died at Quorn, 

 from the effects of bronchitis. Born at Hal- 

 laton, near Market Harborough, he completed 



