Dr. Heberden was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1745, and a Fellow 25th June, 1746. He settled in London at the close of 1748; was nominated Gulstonian Lecturer in 1749; Harveian Orator in 1750; and Croonian Lecturer in 1760. He was Censor in 1749, 1755, 1760; and was constituted an Elect 11th August, 1762, an office which he resigned 28th June, 1781. About this time, becoming sensible that his age required indulgence, he passed the summer at a house which he had purchased at Windsor, but he continued his practice in town during the winter for some years longer. Dr. Heberden died at his house in Pall Mall, honoured, esteemed, and venerated by all ranks in and out of the profession, on the 17th May, 1801, in the 91st year of his age. He was buried at Windsor. By his wife, Mary, the eldest daughter of William Wollaston, esquire, to whom he was married 19th January, 1760, he had five sons and three daughters. His second son, who was bred a physician, practised with great success in London, and fully maintained the reputation of his distinguished name. He will have to be mentioned in a subsequent page.

Dr. Heberden's character has been so admirably drawn by Dr. Macmichael, that I have no hesitation in transferring his sketch to my own pages :-" Dr. Heberden was always exceedingly liberal and charitable; therefore, as soon as he found he could support himself in London, he voluntarily relinquished a fellowship which he held in St. John's college, for the benefit of some poorer scholar to whom it might be of use. He was forward in encouraging all objects. of science and literature, and promoting all useful institutions. There was scarcely a public charity to which he did not subscribe, or any work of merit to

borne, and Dr. Glynn of Cambridge. The specimens he had collected for the illustration of his lectures he presented to St. John's college when he quitted Cambridge. Of his method of lecturing a specimen is preserved in his Essay on Mithridatium and Theriaca, published in 1745, three years before he quitted the university. Treating of this famous medicine, which had recently been expunged from our public dispensatory, Dr. Heberden proves that the only poisons known to the ancients were hemlock, monk'shood, and those of venomous beasts; and that to these few they knew of no antidotes. That the farrago called after the celebrated king of Pontus, which in the time of Celsus consisted of thirty-eight simples, had changed its composition every hundred years, and that therefore what had been for so many ages called Mithridatium, was quite different from the true medicine found in the cabinet of that prince This, he states, was a very trivial one, compose of twenty leaves of rue, one grain of salt, two nut and two dried figs; and he infers that, even supposi Mithridates had ever used the compound (which doubtful), his not being able to despatch himself v less owing to the strength of his antidote than to weakness of his poison. The first accounts of su poisons that might be concealed under the stone seal or ring, as well as the stories of poisons vapours arising from perfumed gloves and letter pronounces to be evidently the idle invention ignorance and superstition. The learning and sense which characterize the whole of this little will enable the reader to form a judgment manner in which he conveyed instruction to his and of the loss which the university must ha fered by his removal.

profession by the worth and excellence of his private character. From his early youth Dr. William Heberden had entertained a deep sense of religion, a consummate love of virtue, an ardent thirst for knowledge, and an earnest desire to promote the welfare and happiness of all mankind. By these qualities, accompanied with great sweetness of manners, he acquired the love and esteem of all good men, in a degree which perhaps very few have experienced; and after passing an active life with the uniform testimony of a good conscience, he became a distinguished example of its influence in the cheerfulness and serenity of his latest age."

His "Commentarii de Morborum Historiâ et Curatione," a posthumous work, which will transmit his name to the latest posterity, appeared both in Latin and English in 1802. They were received with equal, if not greater, applause on the continent than in England. Soemmering considered them of such value that he reprinted them in Germany with a preface, in which he styles their author the "Medicus verè Hippocraticus." Professor Friedlander, of Halle, published in 1831 a neat edition at Leipsic, as a portion of the "Scriptorum Classicorum de Praxi Medicâ nonnullorum Opera Collecta.

An admirable portrait of Dr. Heberden, in his 86th year, by Sir William Beechey, is in the College dining-room. It has been well engraved by W. Ward.

MOSES GRIFFITH, M.D. was educated at Leyden, where he proceeded doctor of medicine the 30th December, 1744 (D.M.I. de Abortu præcavendo, 4to.) He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 13th April, 1747, and practised for many

years in London, but in 1768 withdrew to Colchester, where (I believe) he died in March, 1785. He was the author of "Practical Observations on the Cure of the Hectic and Slow Fevers, and the Pulmonary Consumption;" to which is added, "A Method of treating several kinds of Internal Hæmorrhages. 8vo. Lond. 1775." To Dr. Griffiths we owe the compound iron mixture of the Pharmacopoeia.

SAMUEL MIKLES, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Glasgow; was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th April, 1747.

JOHN DAVISON, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Leyden; was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College 19th July, 1748. He practised at Nottingham; was physician to the hospital in that town; and died on the 10th December, 1790, in the 78th year of his age.

DAVID THOMSON, M.D. of Camberwell, and a doctor of medicine of Aberdeen of 1739, was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd September, 1748.

EDWARD MILWARD, M.D. was educated at Leyden, where he graduated doctor of medicine. On the 7th July, 1741, he was created M.D. at Cambridge by royal mandate, and was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1747; and a Fellow 30th September, 1748. He was Censor in 1752, 1758; and delivered the Harveian Oration in 1752. Dr. Milward was the author of

Trallianus Reviviscens; or, an Account of Alexander Trallian, &c. in a Letter to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. 8vo. Lond. 1734.

Letter to all Orders of Learned Men concerning a History of the Lives of British Physical and Chirurgical Authors. 8vo. Lond. 1740.

WILLIAM COXE, M.D. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge; M.B. 1738; M.D. 4th July, 1743. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1747; a Fellow, 30th September, 1748; and was Censor in 1750-55. He was physician to the Westminster hospital from 1750 to 1757.

JOHN THOMAS BATT, M.D. of Baliol college, Oxford. He proceeded A.B. 9th December, 1736; A.M. 7th July, 1739; M.B. 6th November, 1742; M.D. 12th July, 1746; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1747; and a Fellow, 30th September, 1748. He was Censor in 1750, 1756, 1761; and Harveian Orator in 1754. Dr. Batt was elected physician to St. George's hospital 7th February, 1746, and died 26th August, 1762.

ROBERT TAYLOR, M.D. was the son of John Taylor, esq. twice mayor of Newark. He was of Trinity college, Cambridge, and proceeded M.B. 1732; M.D. 7th July, 1737. Returning to his native town, Newark, he practised there with considerable success for several years, but then removed to London, where he was patronised by Sir Edward Hulse, who was then gradually withdrawing himself from practice. Dr. Taylor was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 4th April, 1748; and a Fellow 20th March, 1749. He was Gulstonian Lecturer in 1750; Censor, 1751; and Harveian Orator in 1755. He held the appointment of physician to the King; and died, after a prosperous career, in May, 1762. Dr. Taylor published his Harveian Oration and "Miscellanea Medica. 4to. Lond. 1761."

WILLIAM MUSHET, M.D. was of King's college, Cambridge, and proceeded M.D. in 1746. He was