Collegii socius, A.D. 1755."* Another, and finer portrait of Dr. Freind than the one just mentioned, is in the possession of George Owen Rees, M.D., of Albemarle-street.

There is, too, in the Censor's room, a spirited medallion of Dr. Freind, carved in boxwood. It was presented to the College by Dr. Diamond, and had formerly belonged to Sir George L. Tuthill, M.D., a Fellow of our College, which is all that is known concerning it. Beside these, there is extant a finely executed medal of Dr. Freind, with the doctor's bust on the obverse, inscribed "JOANNES FREIND, Coll. Med. Lond. et Reg. S.S," and on the neck the initial letters of the artist's name, S. V. (Saint Urbain). Reverse, an ancient and modern physician joining hands. "Medicina vetus et nova. Exergue, Unam facimus utramque."

The doctor's valuable library was sold at auction by Mr. Cock, in January, 1728-9.

THOMAS PELLETT, M.D., was born in Sussex, and admitted a pensioner of Queen's college, Cambridge, 8th June, 1689, as a member of which he proceeded bachelor of medicine in 1694. In the following year he visited Italy, in company with Dr. Mead and Mr. Thomas Polhill, studied for a time at Padua, and then returned to England. He was created doctor of medicine of Cambridge (Comitiis Regiis) in 1705; and, settling in London, was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1707; and a Fellow, 9th April, 1716. He was Censor in 1717, 1720, 1727; Harveian Orator, 1719; Consiliarius, 1740, 1741; and President, 1735, 1736, 1737, 1738, 1739. Dr. Pellett and Mr. Martin Folkes were the joint-editors of the edition of Sir Isaac Newton's "Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms," which appeared in 1728. Dr. Pellett died at his house in Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, 4th July, 1744. His portrait is on the staircase.

* Malcolm's Londinum Redivivum, vol. iii, p. 384.

"Vir multis nominibus celebrandus, atque hoc uno (si nullum

JOHN PLOMER.-A native of Gloucestershire, in which county he was then practising; was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians, 12th June, 1716.

WILLIAM HALLETT, M.D., was entered on the physic line at Leyden, 23rd August, 1713, and graduated doctor of medicine there in 1714 (D.M.I. de viribus Argenti Vivi). He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 31st July, 1716. Dr. Hallett practised at Exeter, was a Dissenter, and was implicitly trusted by those of his own persuasion in and around that city. He was one of the five physicians appointed to the Devon and Exeter hospital on its establishment in 1741. Dr. Hallett died in 1754.

THOMAS PONT, Of Liverpool, was admitted an ExtraLicentiate of the College of Physicians 25th April,

1717.

CHARLES TOURVILLE.-A younger son of Sir Tourville, of Ashton, co. Leicester, bart. ; was admitted subesset aliud) minime hic tacendus, quod annuam hanc dicendi occasionem aliquandiu intermissam Ipse restituerit: cujus laudabili proposito non modo consummatam Ipsius sed posterorum quoque Oratorum omnium debemus Eloquentiam. Singularis omnino fuit et eximia Pelletti indoles. Artibus et ingenio ad medicinam exolendam quo fuit instructior eo studiosius ejus exercendæ grave onus detrectavit. Quanto magis meritorum suorum fuit conscius, tanto ægrius iniquam artis suæ toleravit sortem, qui egregiis animi dotibus plerosque homines superavit, eum profecto coram Muliercularum tribunali ad quod quotidie citantur Medici causam dicere piguit maximè: qui injuriarum suspicionum, inimicitiarum infamiæ, immo et famæ omnino immeritæ non valde fuit patiens, is artem istiusmodi in quâ exercendâ hæc omnia insunt mala non aversari non potuit, qui otii literati et quotidianæ literatorum consuetudinis fuit amantissimus, is ab iis ad diurnos nocturnosque artis acerbissimæ labores se divelli ægrè passus est. Qui denique lucri gratiâ facere nihil is arte humanitatis et amicitiæ potuit omnia. O præclarissimum Hominis Ingenium! qui ita sentire numquam destiterit. O invidendam Medici fortunam quæ ita agere ei permiserit." Oratio Harveiana, 1755 habita, p. 35.

an Extra-Licentiate of the College 25th May, 1717. He practised at Whitehaven.

HIS GRACE JOHN DUKE OF MONTAGUE was admitted, at his own request, a Fellow of the College of Physicians 23rd October, 1717.* He was often present at the delivery of the Harveian Orations, and not unfrequently at the annual dinners. The duke died of a violent fever in July, 1749, aged fifty-nine. He was master-general of the ordnance, master of the great wardrobe, colonel of the 2nd dragoon guards, knight of the garter, grand master of the order of the Bath, a privy councillor, and a fellow of the Royal Society. Dying without issue the title became extinct.

WILLIAM CROSE, of Richmond, Surrey, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 8th May, 1718.

MICHAEL LEE DICKER, M.D., was born in Exeter, and on the 20th August, 1717, being then twenty-two years of age, was entered on the physic line at Leyden, and in that university took his degree of doctor of medicine 30th May, 1718 (D.M.I. de Motibus Ordinatis et Inordinatis Animalium, 4to.). He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 14th June, 1718, and then settled at Exeter, where he soon acquired the confidence of a numerous party. Dr. Dicker was a member of the society of Friends; a man of inoffensive manners and plain good sense, rather safe than scientific, and more distinguished for mild attention than officious interference in the operations of nature. He was appointed one of the physicians to the Devon

**

"His Grace the Duke of Montague having been admitted doctor of physick at Cambridge, when king George was there: the president proposed him to be chosen fellow of the College. His Grace was ballotted for and elected n.c. Resolved that the fellows of the College will meet in their gowns at the Treasurer's house (which is near the Duke's), and go thence and admit his Grace at

his own house."

and Exeter hospital on its establishment, and continued to hold that office till his death, 3rd October, 1754, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. A portrait of Dr. Dicker, Thomas Hudson, is in the board room of the hospital at Exeter.

RICHARD TYSON, M.D., was born in Gloucestershire, and was the son of Edward Tyson, M.D., a Fellow of the College, who died in 1708. Dr. Richard Tyson was educated at Pembroke college, Cambridge, of which house he was a fellow. He proceeded M.B. 1710; M.D. 1715; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1717; and a Fellow 25th June, 1718. He was Censor in 1718, 1728, 1734, 1736, 1737; Registrar from 1723 to 1735 inclusive; was appointed Treasurer 16th April, 1739, in place of Dr. Wharton, deceased, and held that office until October, 1746. He delivered the Harveian Oration in 1725. Dr. Tyson was named an Elect 18th August, 1735; and was elevated to the Presidential chair in 1746. This distinguished office he continued to fill to the day of his death, 3rd January, 1749-50. Dr. Tyson was physician to St. Bartholomew's hospital, to which office he was elected 7th May, 1725. In September, 1729, whilst in the execution of his office there, he was violently assaulted by one of the patients, supposed to be in a disordered state of his senses. Help immediately coming, the fellow was secured, but in the scuffle Dr. Tyson fell against the locker of a bed, by which the cap of his knee was put out, and his arms very much bruised.*

THOMAS WEST, M.D., was born in Northamptonshire, and was originally of Exeter college, Oxford, as a member of which he took the degree of bachelor of arts 17th October, 1687; but then removing to Merton college, proceeded A.M. 13th November, 1691; M.B. 29th April, 1693; M.D. 25th June, 1696. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 23rd December,

* British Medical Journal for October 23, 1875, p. 527.

1717; and a Fellow 22nd December, 1718. He was Treasurer in 1721 and 1722; Censor, 1725, 1729; and dying suddenly at his house in Red Lion-square, 17th August, 1738, was buried in the chapel of Merton college, Oxford, where he is thus commemorated:

Here,

near the remains of his first wife, CATHERINE, daughter of Dr. Lydall, who died Dec ye 16, A.D. 1705, lieth

the body of THOMAS WEST, M.D.
Fellow of the College of Physicians,
and formerly Fellow of this College,
who departed this life

the seventeenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord
1738, aged 70 years.

WILLIAM WAGSTAFFE, M.D., was descended from a very ancient family long settled at Knightcote, in Warwickshire; but was actually born in Northamptonshire. His father, who was rector of Cublington, co. Bucks, took more than ordinary care of the education of this his only son. He was placed at an excellent school in Northampton, whence, at the age of sixteen, he was removed to Lincoln college, Oxford. At the university he was distinguished, not only for the soundness of his learning, but as an agreeable and facetious companion, which made his society much sought for by persons of superior rank and standing. He took the degree of A.B. 16th June, 1704; A.M. 5th May, 1707; and had some thoughts of entering the Church; but a visit to London, to his relative the Rev. Thomas Wagstaffe, an amateur practitioner of physic, diverted him from his original intention, and induced him to apply to the study of medicine. He proceeded doctor of medicine at Oxford, accumulating his degrees, 8th July, 1714, and settling in London, was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 23rd December, 1717, and a Fellow 22nd December, 1718. He was Censor in 1720. Dr. Wagstaffe was a fellow of the Royal Society, reader