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ptoduced at first temporary paralysis, and subsequently through life, 
frequent and intense neuralgic suffering, attended by great emaciation. 
Still his powerful and enthusiastic mind rose above hi i 
although they often deprived him of sleep. He wrote several of his 
works while he was a martyr to pain; at the same time he continued 
his professional visits, and at the bed side of his patients, and when in 
socie 
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the night preceding his decease. He was then in great suffering; and 
o'clock P. 
aroused his active mind even when suffering intense pain; his powers 
instantly rallied and poured forth treasures of knowledge and often 
"lerary and poetical effusions with a natural eloquence and finished 
Telgns of England, as friends of human liberty, and some of them paid 
the price of their blood. 
ie antell was remarkable for his candor and kindness, and for 
Scientific justice,* especially to original discoverers, whether eminent 
mole, and n iti i 
Courtesy towards the scientific and literary productions of this country 
and their authors. 
_ Although he sold to the British Museum some years since the greater 
Mart of his vast collection of fossils of the southeast of England, his 
Private dwelling was still a rich museum of most interesting objects 
of nature and art :—every thing conspired in perfect unity, to one 
pe Dr. Mantell transmitted to Baron Cuvier the then (1822) newly discovered teeth 
vient” Sigantic fossil reptile, since named the Iguanodon ; and in the record of Cu- 
For ee quoted by Dr. ell in his Geology of Sussex and Fi of Til, si 
iastrions ci 71, are the following expressions, which prove that he gave to 
a ler the credit which was his due: 
“Ces dents me . H a st eit i Yordre 
Tec) we Sont certainement inconnus—je crois qu’elles appartient—a : 
des reptiles, be oe 2 Ne ptile herb 
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