362 Obituary Notice of Dr. Gaspar Spurzheim. 
. In Paris, Dr. Spurzheim married a lady of great merit.’ She 
was a widow and had three daughters when he married her. Drv 
Spurzhein had no children of his own. Several ladies of this city, 
who--were introduced to Mrs. Spurzheim in Paris and in London, 
remember her with the highest esteem and delight. Her whole 
_— expressed a union of true humility, tender attachment, and 
ious power, which excited at once affection and confidence. 
Gidd cineec fully into her husband’s pursuits, and aided him by her 
uncommon skill in drawing. To her pencil we are indebted for a 
number of those excellent.drawings used by Dr. Spurzheim in his 
lectures.» But far more important to-him was the aid which he de- 
rived from the unseen and inexhaustible treasures of a true and de- 
voted heart. It was often observed how well their characters seemed — 
to-be fitted for each other. They were both adepts in that — 
est of all sciences, and most pleasing of all the fine arts—Christian 
benevolence shown forth in beautiful manners. It is. Sheil 
of Dr. Spurzheim, that one of the reasons which influenced him it 
the choice of his wife, was the knowledge that she had undergone 
great suffering, which he thought essential to the perfection of hamamr 
nature. An ancient philosopher thought that no one could berome 
a good physician, who had not himself endured maby 
Whatever be the merits of this speculation as regards ‘the. redivel 
profession, it is certainly true in morals—that no ne ean so readily 
_ Perceive and deeply understand, and so successfully alleviate the suf 
’ ferings of others, ashe himself who is a man of sorrows, and aequaint- 
ed with grief. Dr. Spurzheim was devotedly attached to his wife 
and he remained so after her death to the end of his own lifes “Whih 
he was in this country, though surrounded by many whom he ha 
soon made his. friends, be often mourned the beniiontls situa 
tion, particularly when indisposition, or, fatigue, made him long after 
those small services of domestic affection and ever watchful care, of 
which those who devote themselves wholly to one of the great gene 
ral interests of mankind, be it the cause of: religion or of science, 
stand i in one need—that wholesome atmosphere of constant love, 
of which seems to be felt more a the" more ut 
conscious we. are while: we inhale it. In his last sickness, hey in ® 
Manner, ascribed his illness to the want of warm Ligaen. his 
return from his lectures, 
living, its 
