AmMJa°y,ri884arm'}  Life  °f  Robert  Bridges,  M.  J).  249 
ing  Power  of  Anthracite,"  "Precipitated  Carbonate  of  Lime/'  "Solu- 
tion of  Iodide  of  Iron/7  "Solidification  of  Carbonic  Acid,"  in  1844; 
" Pil.  Hydrargyria"  in  1846,  and  "Southern  Prickly- Ash  bark,"  in 
1865.  In  July,  1845,  Dr.  Bridges  "edited  with  additions"  the  Ameri- 
can reprint  of  "Elementary  Chemistry,  Theoretical  and  Practical,"  by 
George  Fownes,  and  subsequently  several  editions  of  this  popular 
volume.  The  latest  American,  from  the  twelfth  English  edition  of 
the  work,  was  issued  May,  1878.  He  also  edited,  1852,  the  American 
reprint  of  Graham's  "  Elements  of  Chemistry."  From  1854  till  1877, 
inclusive,  he  contributed  very  many  bibliographical  notices  and  reviews, 
chiefly  of  works  on  chemistry,  to  the  "American  Journal  of  the  Medi- 
cal Sciences."  He  assisted  Dr.  George  B.  Wood  in  the  preparation  of 
the  twelfth,  1865,  the  thirteenth,  1870,  and  the  fourteenth,  1877,  editions 
of  the  "  United  States  Dispensatory,"  a  leading  work  on  materia  medica 
and  pharmacy  of  such  acknowledged  excellence  and  accuracy  as  to  be 
generally  accepted  as  authority  in  the  premises. 
During  the  last  few  years  of  his  life,  Dr.  Bridges  endured  most 
patiently  the  constant  molestations  and  frequent  pain,  which  attend 
chronic  cystitis.  His  repose  at  night,  broken  into  a  series  of  hourly  naps, 
did  not  bring  to  him  for  the  next  day  the  refreshing  effect  of  normal 
sleep;  and  so  his  physical  .vigor  was  continuously  abated,  and  his 
mental  pursuits  greatly  disturbed.  But  in  spite  of  worry  from  this 
condition  of  his  health,  he  was  serenely  cheerful  and  manifested  his 
usual  interest  in  scientific  topics.  Within  a  few  days  of  the  completion 
of  the  seventy-sixth  year  of  his  age,  he  died,  February  20,  1882,  in  the 
house  he  had  occupied  with  his  brother  and  family  twenty-eight  years. 
He  was  never  married.  His  generous  and  sympathetic  kindness, 
self-sacrificing  spirit  and  habitual  amiability  won  the  almost  filial  love 
and  respect  of  his  brother's  many  children.  Their  devotion  to  him  is 
conclusive  evidence  of  his  domestic  qualities  and  the  tenderness  of  his 
nature. 
Frugal  in  his  living,  punctual  and  loyal  to  all  duties,  accurate, 
learned,  unremittingly  industrious,  rigidly  self-respecting  and  pure  in 
conduct  in  every  sense,  he  worked  faithfully  throughout  his  long  life, 
but  did  not  reap  compensation  commensurate  with  his  toil.  He  lacked 
of  that  self-asserting,  aggressive  spirit  which  leads  many  a  good  man 
to  fortune  under  circumstances  in  which  one  of  far  greater  intrinsic 
worth  often  fails  only  because  he  is  too  shy,  too  modest  to  assert  his 
