MARTIN WALL, M.D., was born at Worcester, and was the son of John Wall, M.D., a distinguished physician of that city. He was educated at Winchester, whence he was elected to New college, Oxford; and as a member of that house proceeded A.B. 17th June, 1767; A.M. 2nd July, 1771; M.B. 9th June, 1773; M.D. 9th April, 1777. He studied medicine also at Edinburgh and at St. Bartholomew's hospital. In 1774 Dr. Wall commenced practice as a physician at Oxford ; and on the 2nd November, 1775, was elected physician to the Radcliffe infirmary. In 1781 he was appointed reader in chemistry; and on the death of Dr. Parsons, in 1785, was, after a sharp contest, elected lord Lichfield's professor of clinical medicine. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 5th June, 1788. Dr. Wall was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1786; a Fellow, 25th June, 1787. He delivered the Harveian oration in 1788. Dr. Wall died 21st June, 1824, in his seventy-eighth year. He contributed some curious papers to the "Transactions of the Manchester Literary Society," and published the following works:

The Medical Tracts of John Wall, M.D., collected, with the Author's Life. 8vo. Oxford. 1780.

Dissertations on Select Subjects in Chemistry and Medicine. 8vo. Oxford. 1783.

Clinical Observations on the Use of Opium in Slow Fevers. 8vo. Oxford. 1786.

Malvern Waters: being a republication of Cases formerly collected by John Wall, M.D., and since illustrated by his Son. 8vo. 1806.

JOHN LITTLEHALES, M.D., was born in Shropshire, and educated at Pembroke college, Oxford, as a member of which he took the two degrees in arts, A.B. 15th June, 1775; A.M. 30th April, 1778; when, coming before the College of Physicians, he was, on the 25th June, 1778, admitted an Extra-Licentiate. He then settled at Winchester; and, accumulating his degrees in physic, proceeded M.D. at Oxford 9th July, 1782. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physi

cians 26th June, 1786; and a Fellow, 25th June, 1787.
He was physician to the Winchester hospital; and died
2nd January, 1810, aged fifty-seven years.
A monu-
ment to his memory in Winchester cathedral bears the
following inscription:-

Near to this place are deposited the remains of
JOHN LITTLEHALES, M.D.,

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians,
and formerly of Pembroke College, Oxford.
His eminent professional talents,

by the blessing of Divine Providence,

were successfully exerted with a generosity so distinguished, and beneficence to the poor so diffusive and unwearied, amidst a very extended practice,

that his decease was an event most deeply regretted and lamented. The principal inhabitants of Winchester and its neighbourhood, have erected this monument,

as a public record of their affectionate gratitude
to the memory of their friend and benefactor:
but from the Saviour of the world,

whose faith he adorned by a life devoted to Christian benevolence, he will receive his final reward.

He departed this life the 2nd of January, 1810, aged 57 years.

GEORGE FORDYCE, M.D., was born at Aberdeen 18th November, 1736. He was the posthumous and only child of Mr. George Fordyce, the possessor of a small landed estate called Broadford, in the neighbourhood of that city. He received his school education at Fouran, and was transferred thence to the university of Aberdeen, where he was created master of arts when only fourteen years of age. Having evinced a partiality for the medical profession, he was sent, when fifteen years of age, to his uncle Dr. John Fordyce, who was then practising at Uppingham, in Rutlandshire. He remained with him for some years, and then proceeded to Edinburgh, where he was one of the earliest and most favoured pupils of Dr. Cullen. He graduated doctor of medicine there the 13th October, 1758 (D.M.I. de Catarrho). Dr. Fordyce then came to London to continue his studies in anatomy under Dr. William Hunter, and in botany at the Chelsea gardens. In the

autumn (of 1759) he went over to Leyden for the express purpose of studying anatomy under Albinus, and pathology under Gaubius. Returning to London, he at once commenced a course of lectures on chemistry. This was attended by nine pupils. In 1764 Dr. Fordyce began to lecture also on materia medica and the practice of physic. These three subjects he continued to teach with rapidly-increasing reputation for nearly thirty years, giving for the most part three courses of lectures on each subject in every year. A course lasted nearly four months, and during it a lecture was delivered six times in the week. His time of teaching commenced about seven o'clock in the morning and ended at ten o'clock, his lectures on the three subjects being given one immediately after the other. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1765; and in 1770 was chosen physician to St. Thomas's hospital, after a very sharp contest with Dr., subsequently Sir William Watson, the number of votes in his favour being 109, in that of his opponent 106. In 1774 Dr. Fordyce became a member of the Literary Club; and in 1776 a fellow of the Royal Society. He was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians, speciali gratiâ, 25th June, 1787, and rendered most important aid in the preparation of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1788, for which his knowledge of chemistry and materia medica peculiarly fitted him. He was Censor in 1787, 1792, 1800; Gulstonian Lecturer in 1789; and Harveian orator in 1791. Dr. Fordyce was always fond of society, and in the earlier years of his life to render the enjoyment of its pleasures compatible with his professional pursuits, he used to sleep but little. He was often known to lecture for three consecutive hours in the morning without having undressed himself the preceding night. He had satisfied himself that man eats far oftener than nature requires, and for many years he took but one meal in the twenty-four hours. He dined every day for more than twenty years at Dolly's chophouse, in Paternoster-row. At four o'clock the

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doctor regularly took his seat at a table always reserved for him, on which were placed a silver tankard of strong ale, a bottle of port wine, and a measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy. The moment the waiter announced him, the cook put a pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some delicate trifle as a bonne bouche, to serve until the steak was ready. This was sometimes half a boiled chicken, sometimes a plate of fish; when he had eaten this he took one glass of brandy and then proceeded to devour his steak. When he had finished his meal he took the remainder of his brandy, having during dinner drank the tankard of ale and afterwards the bottle of port! He thus spent an hour and a half of his time, and then returned to his house in Essex-street. He made no other meal until his return next day at four o'clock to Dolly's. The vigour of his constitution enabled him to sustain for a time without apparent injury this mode of life. But at length he was attacked with gout, which afterwards became irregular, and for many years frequently affected him with excruciating pains in the stomach and bowels. He died at his house in Essexstreet, Strand, 25th May, 1802, and was buried at St. Anne's Soho. His memory was singularly capacious and retentive. He had read extensively, and, according to his friend and colleague, Dr. Wells, was probably more generally skilled in those sciences directly or remotely connected with medicine than any person of his time. His manners were less refined, and his dress in general less studied than is expected in this country in the physician. From these causes and from his spending no more time with his patients than was barely sufficient for forming a just opinion of their ailments, he had for many years but little private employment in his profession, and never, even in the latter part of his life when his reputation was at its height, enjoyed nearly so much as many of his contemporaries. A good memoir of this distinguished physician, from the pen

Nuga Chirurgica. 8vo. Lond. 1827, p. 8.

of

his friend and colleague Dr. Wells, is to be seen in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for June, 1802. Dr. Fordyce's portrait, by Phillips, is at St. Thomas's hospital, and was engraved by Keating. He contributed several important papers to the "Philosophical Transactions," and was the author of the following works :

Elements of Agriculture and Vegetation. 8vo. Edinb. 1765. Elements of the Practice of Physic. 8vo. Lond. 1770.

A Treatise on the Digestion of Food. 8vo. Lond. 1791. Dissertations on Fever. 8vo. Lond. No. 1, 1794; No. 2, 1795; No. 3, in two parts, 1798, 1799; No. 4, 1802. The fifth was left by the author in MS. and was published by Dr. Wells in 1803.

JOSEPH HART MYERS, M.D., was born of Jewish parents at New York, where he received his preliminary education. At a comparatively early age he was sent to this country, when he commenced the study of his future profession by attendance on the lectures of Dr. William Hunter and Dr. George Fordyce. From London he repaired to Edinburgh, and there, after a residence of four years, took the degree of doctor of medicine 24th June, 1779 (D.M.I. de Diabete). Dr. Myers then visited Leyden, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, making a considerable stay in each; when he returned to England and settled in London. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1787; and was soon afterwards appointed physician to the Portuguese hospital and to the General dispensary. He died at his house in John-street, America-square, 1st June, 1823, aged sixty-five, from gout, a disease from which he had long suffered, and which for some years had incapacitated him from the practice of his profession.

LAURENCE NIHELL, M.D.-A native of Antigua, and a doctor of medicine of Edinburgh of 12th September, 1780 (D.M.I. de Cerebro); was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1787.

EDWARD LONG FOX, M.D., was the second son of Joseph Fox, a surgeon of Falmouth, by his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of Richard Hingston, of Penryn, and