for the valuable powder of opium and ipecacuanha, which is still known by his name.

EDWARD BROWNE, M.D.-A native of Limerick, and a doctor of medicine of the university of Caen in Normandy, of 1st April, 1712; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 10th November, 1721. He died in 1750.

MEYER LOW SCHOMBERG, M.D." A Jew of Fetzburg, a German," as he is described in the Annals, and a doctor of medicine of Geissen, of 21st December, 1710; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 19th March, 1721-2. At that time he was in very reduced circumstances; his pecuniary resources were insufficient to meet the fees due on his admission, and the College considerately accepted his bond* for payment at a subsequent period. Cultivating an intimacy with the Jews of Duke's-place, he, by their means, got introduced to the acquaintance of some of the leading men, merchants, and others of their religion, who employed him, and by their interest recommended him to a good practice. He had been librarian to some person of distinction abroad, was á fluent talker, and a man of insinuating address; and as he understood mankind well, he soon found out a method of acquiring popularity, which had never been practised by any of his profession. He took a large house and kept a public table, to which, on a certain day in the week, all the young surgeons were invited and treated with an indiscriminate civility, that had very much the appearance of friendship, but in reality meant nothing more than that they should recommend him to practice. The scheme succeeded in the year 1740 Schomberg, it is said, had distanced all the city physicians, and was in the receipt of a professional income of four thousand

* His bond to the College, now before me, is signed Meyer Schamberg; and so his name is always spelt by Sir William Browne in his publications concerning him.

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guineas a year. Dr. Schomberg died 4th March, 1761, leaving two sons, who were bred physicians: Isaac, memorable for his contest with the College of Physicians, to be afterwards mentioned; and Ralph, who practised successively at Yarmouth and Bath. Dr. Ralph Schomberg was a voluminous writer, the author of "Aphorismi Practici," and of the "Abridgment of Van Swieten's Commentaries on Boerhaave." His character was damaged by some disgraceful literary thefts, and by some money transactions of no reputable character. Eventually he relinquished the practice of his profession, and retired first to Pangbourne, and afterwards to Reading, where he died 29th June, 1792.

ISAAC DE SEQUEYRA SAMUDA, M.B.-A Portuguese, and a bachelor of medicine of the university of Coimbra, of 21st May, 1702; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 19th March, 1721-2. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society, 24th October, 1724. His name disappeared from the College list

in 1731.

EDWARD KYNASTON was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 7th September, 1722. He practised in Shropshire.

DANIEL WYNTER was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 24th November, 1722. He practised in Brecknockshire.

MUSSHEY TEALE, M.B., was a native of Middlesex. Admitted a pensioner of Queen's college, Cambridge, 11th October, 1715; he, in October, 1719, proceeded to Leyden, and entered himself on the physic line there. Returning to England, he graduated bachelor of medicine at Cambridge in 1722. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1722. Dr. Teale practised during the greater portion of his life in the country, latterly at Maidstone, and died the 6th

June, 1760. He had married Mary, daughter of George Poole, esq., of Charing, co. Kent, in the church of which parish they were both buried. The memorial of them is as follows:

Near this place lyeth

Mary, the wife of Musshey Teale, Doctor of Physic,
youngest daughter of George Poole, esq., of this place,
a person truly eminent for her great piety,
good understanding, and charitable disposition.
She died lamented October 30th, 1752.
Here lies likewise her husband,

Dr. Musshey Teale, of Maidstone,
who died the 6th of June, 1760.

Great names which in our rolls recorded stand,
Lend honors and protect the learned band;
But here the grateful Muse, to merit due,
Has but one generous thought in view,
By the deceased's unblemished worth to prove,

As social virtue all the world approve;

While truth and honour both conjoin their seal,

And center'd sense and virtue in the breast of Teale.

THOMAS BAINBRIGG, M.D.-A native of Cambridgeshire and a doctor of medicine of Cambridge (Comitiis Regiis) 1717; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 19th March, 1721-2, and a Fellow 8th April, 1723. He was Censor in 1728, and died 26th December, 1729, aged forty-two.

CHRISTOPHER PACKE, M.D., was born at St. Alban's in 1682, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school. He was created doctor of medicine at Cambridge (Comitiis Regiis) 1717. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1723; and, settling at Canterbury, practised there with much reputation for more than a quarter of a century. Dr. Packe died 15th November, 1749, and was buried in the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Canterbury, in the south aisle of which is a floor stone engraved with his name and the date of his death. His son, of both his names, was also a physician, and practised at Canterbury. He was of Peterhouse, Cambridge, M.B. 1751,

and dying 21st October, 1800, aged seventy-two, was buried in the same vault as his father, and is commemorated on the same slab. Dr. Packe the elder was the author of

A Reply to Dr. Gray's Three Answers to Mr. Worger's Case. 4to. Canterbury, 1727.

MESSENGER MONSEY, A.B., was born in 1693, and was the son of the Rev. Robert Monsey, one of the non-juring clergy, by his wife Mary, a daughter of the Rev. Roger Clopton, rector of Downham. After an excellent education at home, he was sent to Pembroke college, Cambridge, as a member of which he proceeded bachelor of arts in 1714, and then removed to Norwich, where for some time he studied physic under Sir Benjamin Wrench, M.D. He was admitted an ExtraLicentiate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1723. He settled at Bury St. Edmund's, and whilst there was called to the assistance of lord Godolphin, the son of queen Anne's lord treasurer, and grandson of the great duke of Marlborough, who had been seized on his way to Newmarket with an attack of apoplexy. The nearest medical aid was at Bury, and Monsey was summoned. He was successful in the treatment of his lordship, who was so fascinated with the conversational powers of his Suffolk doctor, that he invited him to London; and eventually inducing him to relinquish his country practice, and accompany him to town, obtained for him, on the death of Dr. Smart, the appointment of physician to Chelsea hospital. Lord Godolphin introduced Monsey to many persons of great eminence and rank, among others to sir Robert Walpole, who assiduously cultivated his acquaintance; and the earl of Chesterfield, who acknowledged with gratitude the benefit he derived from Monsey's medical assistance. Dr. Moncontinued in his office at Chelsea for half a century, and died at his apartments in the hospital in 1788, aged ninety-six.

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Of this eccentric man Mr. Wadd writes thus :-" A

medical oddity, with a considerable share of mental acuteness and literary endowments. He began business at Bury, where he experienced the common fate of country practice-constant fatigue, long journeys, and short fees; and in a rusty wig, dirty boots, and leather breeches, might have degenerated into a hum-drum provincial doctor, his merits not diffused beyond a county chronicle, and his medical errors concealed in the country churchyard-but for an accidental attendance on the earl of Godolphin, in which nature, or Monsey, was successful; and the grateful earl procured for him the appointment at Chelsea, and ultimately left him a handsome legacy. From the narrow, unvaried rural circle he was suddenly transplanted into a land of promise and politeness, with the earls of Chesterfield and Bath, sir Robert Walpole, and Garrick, as his companions and friends. Even in such society Monsey maintained his original plainness of manners, and with an unreserved sincerity sometimes spoke truth in a manner that gave offence; and as old age approached, he acquired an asperity of behaviour and a neglect of decorum that subjected him to the odium of being considered as a cynic and misanthropist. As a physician he adhered to the tenets of the Boerhaavian school, and despised modern improvements in theory and practice, uniformly prescribing contrayerva and ptisan, and adhering to rules and systems merely because they were sanctioned by sixty years' experience. In his politics he was a Whig, in his religion a latitudinarian. But unfortunately, when he shook off the manacles of superstition, he fell into the comfortless bigotry of scepticism, which, like religious bigotry, narrows the intellect and hardens the heart. He left his body for dissection; and a few days before he died wrote to Mr. Cruikshanks, the anatomist, begging to know whether it would suit his convenience to do it, as he felt he could not live many hours, and Mr. Forster, his surgeon, was then out of town. He died as he predicted, and his wishes with respect to his body were strictly attended to." A A very fine portrait