VETERINARY OBITUARY. 
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as containing a description of the mechanism and intended use of 
the sandal, and being the last production of the estimable author. 
His death was sudden and awful. On the 11th of the 
present month he hunted with the Surrey stag-hounds, and re¬ 
turned home about six o’clock to dinner, exceedingly fatigued 
with the exertion he had undergone; and complained (as had 
often been the case of late with liim) of pain in his head. Soon 
after this, setting himself down, he swooned away into (what 
the family imagined was nothing more than a fainting fit, but 
which, in reality, was) an apoplectic paroxysm, or some ap¬ 
proach to it. He, however, quite recovered from this in the 
course of the evening, and retired early to bed. Next day he 
felt much better, and was looked upon as recovering from the 
effects of his over-fatigue; and he arose on Monday morning ap? 
parently much amended. 
In the course of the day his surgeon saw him, and told him 
that he w as constitutionally “ out of order, 1 ’ and that he w ould 
send him some medicine, which he did, consisting of calomel 
pills for that night, and a saline purge for the next morning; 
neither of these, however, did he live to take. About nine 
o’clock in the evening, when he w as sitting in company with 
Mrs. Percivall and a young friend who was on a visit, and the 
orderly corporal was reading to him the day’s report of the 
stables and infirmary, he suddenly cried out, “ Oh! what a pain 
I have here,” pressing his hand to his left breast; “ and now it 
is here,” as suddenly raising the same hand, to his head. Utter¬ 
ing these words, he sunk sideways from his seat, and before any 
one could possibly assist him, fell on the carpet, and expired 
without a struggle. 
As a practitioner, he was distinguished by the quickness and 
the accuracy with which he comprehended the character of the 
disease, and a kind of intuitive knowledge of its course and ter¬ 
mination. His practice was, like liimself, simple, but decisive, 
and to the point. 
As a man, he will long live in the heart’s core of every one 
w ho had the honour to know him. There might have been, now 
and then, an apparent bluntness of manner about him ; but while 
it marked the open, straight-forward character of the man, it 
often concealed a propriety and delicacy of feeling, not always 
found where the address is more studiously courteous. No of¬ 
ficer was more respected and esteemed by his superiors; no one 
more idolized by those who served under him. His domestics 
had grown grey with him—his very orderly was of twenty years’ 
standing. 
As a friend, he w'as honest and faithful: he would serve 
