368 Obituary Notice of Dr. Gaspar Spurzheim. 
so great, that large drops rolled from his face, while his delivery was, 
at the same time, “easy, calm, systematic and even sportive.” “At 
one’of his last lectures in Boston, (the beautiful one on charity and 
mutual forbearance) he was seized with shivering, which proved the 
commencement of a fever; but, against the wishes of his friends, 
he continued to lecture, dieking that it would assist him to throw off 
his indisposition. Owing to the constantly i increasing number of his 
hearers, he exchanged the lecture room in the Atheneum for the 
large hall in the Temple. He had finished his course except one 
lecture, and before he left the hall he asked “In what et shall.me: 
meet next time?” 
Alas! it was not to be in this world ! 
— returned to his lodgings andnever left them again. Deas 
his sickness, every professional and friendly assiduity was shown 
him, for which, while his faculties were his own, he was very grate- 
ful; but he relied more on nature than on medicine, and iseaped 
refused to take the remedies prescribed. 
Through his sickness, however, he was patient oa submissive, and 
distinctly announced his own views of his case in the ¢€ 
words “I must die;” when his friend replied—I hope sabi added 
“Oh yes, I must die; I wish to live as long as I can, for eivitth 
of the science; but I am not afraid of death.” 
His feelings were affected even to weeping by letters from his 
friends in Paris,* received a day or two before his death. An in- 
creasing delirium ended in stupor, from which he was occasionally 
roused, especially when addressed by a friend in his native tongue. — 
_ With his hands folded upon his breast, and an uplifted countenance, — 
he died without a groan, on the night of the 11th of November 3. and 
although he breathed his last in a land of strangers, he was 
ed by affectionate friends, and by able physicians, emulous of doing 
something to rescue him from death, or to smooth his downward 
passage to the grave. He was in the 56th year of his age. ~~ 
ating mare eager to copy the outlines of- his “ noble and benign 
cou nce ;” the most eminent men met to arrange the solemnities — 
meral, | whieh was honored by a public religious service in the 
ancient and venerable South Church ;_ his body, after being examin- 
ed, was weet and placed in the receiving tomb of Monte Au- 
* The public prints mention his having then received a letter from an affectionate ee 
sister. . E : 
