마 which was procured for him by her royal highness' influence on the resignation of his father-in-law, Dr. Shaw. "Dr. Warren's eminence is not to be ascribed, however, to mere patronage, nor to singularity of doctrine, nor to the arts of a showy address, nor to any capricious revolution of Fortune's wheel; it was the just and natural attainment of great talents. These talents, indeed, cannot be subjected to the scrutiny of literary criticism, because he was too eagerly engrossed by pressing occupations to find leisure sufficient to commit many of his observations to paper; but the accuracy of his prognosis, and his fine sagacity, survive in the recollection of a few. His ready memory presented to him on every emergency the extensive stores of his knowledge; and that solidity of judgment which regulated their application to the case before him would have equally enabled him to outstrip competition in any department of science and art. He was one among the first of his professional brethren who departed from the formalities which had long rendered medicine a favourite theme of ridicule with the wits who happened to enjoy health. He was one of the few great characters of his time whose popularity was not the fruit of party favour. Without any sacrifice of independence he gained the suffrages of men of every class, as well as the more difficult applause of his own fraternity. He enjoyed the friendship of many distinguished men, and among others of lord North; his conversation, indeed, was peculiarly fitted to conciliate every variety of age and of temperament. The cheerfulness of his own nature, and the power which he possessed of infusing it into others, enabled him to exercise over his patients an authority very beneficial to themselves; and in this respect, as in some others, he has left an instructive example to future professors of medicine, who perhaps do not always sufficiently seek to inspire the objects of their care with a train of animating thoughts. Warren arrived early at the highest practice in this great metropolis, and maintained his supremacy to the last with unfading facul ties. The amount of revenue sometimes enters into the computation of a medical character, and such anecdotes perhaps form a link in the domestic history of the profession. He is said to have realised 9,000l. a year from the time of the regency, and to have bequeathed to his family above 150,000l."* If posterity should ask what works Dr. Warren left behind him worthy of the great reputation he enjoyed during his lifetime, it must be answered that such was his constant occupation in practice among all classes of people, from the highest to the lowest, that he had no leisure for writing, with the exception of a very few papers published in the College Transactions. But the unanimous respect in which he was held by all his medical brethren, which no man ever obtains without deserving it, fully justifies the popular estimate of his character. To a sound judgment and deep observation of men and things he added various literary and scientific attainments, which were most advantageously displayed by a talent for conversation that was at once elegant, easy, and natural. Of all men in the world, he had the greatest flexibility of temper, instantaneously accommodating himself to the tone of feeling of the young, the old, the gay, and the sorrowful. But he was himself of a very cheerful disposition, and his manner being peculiarly pleasing to others, he possessed over the minds of his patients the most absolute control; and it was said with truth, that no one ever had recourse to his advice as a physician, who did not remain desirous of gaining his friendship and enjoying his society as a companion. In interrogating the patient he was apt and adroit; in the resources of his art, quick and inexhaustible; and when the malady was beyond the reach of his skill, the minds of the sick were consoled by his conversation, and their cares, anxieties, and fears soothed by his presence. And it may be mentioned among the minor qualities which distinguished Dr. Warren, that no one more readily * Dr. Bissett Hawkins' Memoir of Dr. Warren, in Lives of British Physicians, p. 232. gained the confidence, or satisfied the scruples of the subordinate attendants upon the sick by the dexterous employment of the various arguments of encouragement, reproof, and friendly advice. The height Dr. Warren had rapidly attained in his profession he maintained with unabated spirit till his death, which took place at his house in Dover-street on the 22nd June, 1797+; bis disease was erysipelas of the head, which destroyed him in his sixty-sixth year, at the very time when the most sanguine hopes were entertained of his recovery by sir George Baker and Dr. Pitcairn. His widow, two daughters, and eight sons survived him. He was buried * The Gold Headed Cane. 2nd Edn. 8vo. Lond. 1728, p. 205, et seq. +"Ecquis erat unquam scientiâ morborum locupletatus magis, vel magis curatione exercitatus; ecquis erat unquam qui suavi illâ sermonis et morum humanitate, quæ in ipso remediorum loco baberi potest, ecquis erat unquam qui Warrenum superabat? Erat illi ingenii vis maxuma, perceptio et comprehensio celerrima, judicium acre, memoria perceptorum tenacissima. Meministis, Socii, quàm subtiliter et uno quasi intuitu res omnes ægrotantium perspiceret penitus et intelligeret! in interrogando quàm aptus esset et opportunus, quàm promptus in expediendo! Omnia etenim artis subsidia statim illi in mentem veniebant, et nihil ei novum, nihil inauditum videbatur. In eâ autem facultate quâ cor.solamur afflictos et deducimus perterritos a timore, quà languidos incitamus, et erigimus depressos, omnium Medicorum facile princeps fuit: et si qui medicamentis non cessissent dolores, permulcebat eos, et consopiebat hortationibus et alloquio. stetit urna paulum Sicca, dum grato Danai puellas Carmine mulcet. operam "Verum ea est quodammodo artis nostræ conditio, ut Medicus, quamvis sit eruditus, quamvis sit acer et acutus in cogitando, quamvis sit ad præcipiendum expeditus, si fuerit idem in moribus ac voluntatibus civium suorum hospes, parum ei proderit oleum que inter calamos et scrinia consumpsisse. Warrenus autem in omni vitæ et studiorum decursu, si quis unquam alius, Pallade dextrâ usus est, atque omnium quibuscum rem agebat mentes sensusque gustavit; et quid sentirent, quid vellent, quid opinarentur, quid expectarent arripuit, percepit, novit. Tantam denique morum comitatem et facilitatem habuit, ut nemo eo semel usus esset medico, quin socium voluerit et amicum."-Oratio Harveiana, Anno MDCCC. habita, auctore Henrico Halford, p. 12. . at Kensington church, where a tablet to his memory is thus inscribed : RICHARDO WARREN, apud Cavendish in agro Suffolciensi nato, Comitatis et beneficentiæ laude bonis omnibus commendatissimo; Anno Christi MDCCXCVII. Etat. suæ LXVII. Elizabetha uxor et liberi decem superstites Two papers from Dr. Warren's pen are to be seen in the "Medical Transactions." His portrait, by Gainsborough, is in the College. It has been engraved by I. Jones. It was presented by his son, Pelham Warren, M.D., on the opening of the College in Pall Mall East in June, 1825. ROBERT GLYNN CLOBERY, M.D. "This great, distinguished, virtuous, and consummate scholar and physician," of one of his eulogists ;* the "dilectus Iapis "The loved lapis on the banks of Cam;" of another,t was born on the 5th August, 1719, at Kelland, near Bodmin, co. Cornwall, of an ancient and very respectable family, and was educated at Eton, upon the foundation. He was admitted a scholar of King's college, Cambridge in 1737; subsequently became a fellow of that society; and proceeded A.B. 1741; A.M. 1745, and M.D. 1758. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 5th April, 1762, and a Fellow 28th March, 1763. Dr. Glynn commenced practice at Richmond, but soon returned to Cambridge, where he continued to reside and per * Pursuits of Literature, vol. iv, p. 444. † Jesse's Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians, vol. ii, p. 86. form the active duties of his profession until his death in 1800. He changed his name from Glynn to Clobery, in pursuance of the will of a relative who left him some property, but he was usually addressed and known by his paternal name. His life was one uniform course of integrity and benevolence. Though his practice for a long series of years was very extensive, and his establishment confined within the walls of a college, on a plan of most temperate and strict economy, his effects scarcely exceeded 10,000l., including the bequest of his relative. In what manner he applied the principal part of his professional emoluments was known to those who were supported or assisted by his beneficence. His faculties were clear and vigorous within a very short time of his decease. During his illness, sensible of his gradual decay, he expressed nothing but resignation and kindness, and expired without a struggle or a groan on the 8th of February, 1800, in the eighty-first year of his age. Agreeably to Dr. Glynn's repeated directions, he was interred in the vault of King's college chapel in a private manner, between ten and eleven o'clock at night. On this occasion, in compliance with his wishes, the members of the college only attended. But public But public feeling demanded that some more eminent mark of respect should be paid to his memory. The vice-chancellor, Dr. Mansel, of Trinity college, subsequently bishop of Bristol, communicated, therefore, to the gentlemen of the university his intention to accompany the friends of Dr. Glynn, in mourning, from Trinity college to St. Mary's church, on the following Sunday. The procession consisted of the heads of houses, the noblemen, and a numerous body of masters of arts. The sermon on this occasion was preached by the Rev. John Henry Michell, fellow of King's college. Dr. Glynn bequeathed the bulk of his property to King's college, the larger portion towards the improvement of the college (on buildings then in progress); and a sum to be annually divided between such two scholars of the college as in the course of the |