1809.] 
these, is attributed, i. To his name. 
2. To his “ high-flying” speeches on the 
popular oles Pof influence and corrup- 
tion, “In virtue of his youth, he 
gained reat for incorruptible integrity.” 
4. His manner was advantageous; he 
declaimed pompously, and when he rea- 
soned, he gave proots of a quick, discern- 
ing, 2 and cultivated mind. [is speeches, 
in relation to his age, deserved distin- 
guished approbation ; they obtained 
blind admiration. An hundred young 
men at school and college would, in an 
essay, have turned the common places on 
liberty and patriotism, with equal dex- 
terity, against the discomfited conductors 
of the American war.- But not one could 
have been so trained in the habit of ut- 
tering them promptly. Fluency of elocu- 
tion, however, does not appear to be 
more closely connected with wisdom, 
than facility er elegance of composition. 
5. “ By an act (the refusal of the office 
of clerk, of the Pells in Ireland,) which 
as it might egually proceed from patriotic 
disinterestedne ass, and the lowest cun- 
‘ning, his fature conduct could alone 
render unequivecal, he gs the 
faith of a credulous people.” “ Cer- 
fain candidates fer power ielwced our 
displeasure, and we, cool, dispassionate 
Englishmen, took their rival to our bo- 
som in pure despite.” 
In another part of this pamphlet, he 
exclaims, “‘O! superstitious nation! to 
whom an idol is necessary, though with 
the simple African thou be reduced to 
Ww orship. a serpent, or a erocodile, with 
the stupid Egyptian!” And soon after 
he adds: “it is moderate to assert, that 
neither Scipio, when he had denvered 
Rome from her most formidable rival, nor 
Washington, the founder of American 
independence, received more enthusi- 
astic adoration than the political adven- 
turer, whose patriotism rested on the samme 
blustering evidence, as Bobadil’s valour, 
In 1802, appeared “ Hygéia, or Essays, 
Moral and Medical, on the Causes Af- 
fecting the Personal State of the Mid- 
dling and Affluent Ciasses.” This work, 
which was printed at Bristol, 
three volumes, and contains a variety of 
papers on personal prudence, and pre- 
judices respecting health; on personal 
‘imprudence; each, characteris ticS 3.-on 
the use of tea; exercise; cloathing; 
schools; re a more advanced age ; 
catarrh ; scrophulous constitution; con- 
sumption; liver complaints; gout; dis- 
orders, called nervous; febrile contagious 
diseases, &c, &c, : 
Memoirs of the late Thomas Beddoes, A7.D. 
consists of 
cessible ; otherwise in London. 
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In 1808, he published “A Letter to 
the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, 
bart. P.R.S. On the Causes and the Re- 
moval of the Prevailing Discontents, Im- 
perfections, and Abuses, in Medicine,” 
with the following motto: “ Take Physic, 
Physic.” On this occasion, he appears 
to join in the “hue and cry raised 
against incompetent possessors of di- 
plomas,” and affects somewhat of thas 
superiority over the M. D’s. of the Scot- 
tish metropolis, which they themselves 
are said to evince, “ while locking down 
on the sons of Aberdeen, and St. An- 
drew’s, with as much pride as was felt b 
Mars, when he was seated at the right 
hand of Jupiter.” 
He seems to think, that the 
period of three years, required for 
a de-~ 
gree in Scotland, is by far too short, and 
wishes therefore to extend it, to live or 
six, which space of time, he supposes, ma 
be usefully employed, in a series of aanes, 
of which the following is an outline. 
‘6 Bist year.—Dissection, anatomical 
lectures, reading, drawing, and compa- 
rison of anatomical engravings with the 
objects in nature, For relaxation, as 
much as for instruction, a ceurse of che- 
mistry and elementary reading :—this for 
winter. In spring and summer, .4 course 
of comparative anatomy, dissection. of 
animals, botany and physiological read- 
ing, ull the winter of the 
“Second year.—Anatomy exa actly as 
before, attendance on clinical lectures in 
surgery; if none aré given, _close study of 
surgical cases, particularly of surgical ac. 
cidents at first + ; morbid anatomy practi- 
cally, by every epee from this time 
ie Ath In spring, summer, and au- 
tumn, practical >ch emistry, pharitacy, 
betany, materia medica. 
Third year.—In winter—Anatomy and 
surgery still; but external diseases now 
more than accidents. Spring, sammer, 
and autum Uren a HS medical juris- 
prudence, compa ‘ative anatomy, plysi- 
ology, and the other Perot necaod 
pussuits occasionally. 
Fourth year —Anatomy to be kept up 
lectures on the practice of moles. 
clinical lectures. Observation of medi- 
cal cases, and practical reading, to bea 
chief occupation through this year. he 
student may pass it at Bip aeh e at least 
from October to aly. 
Fifth and sixth years.—Close attend+ 
ance on hospitals, with practical reading 
and lectures, at Paris and Vienna Vf ac- 
During 
he autumn of this or the preceding year, 
soine 
