The very extraordinary cafe mentioned by this great Phyfician, of the cure of a most inveterate diarrhoea, in a learned Prelate, by flow journies on horseback, was that of Seth Ward, the Bishop of Sarum, a great Mathematician, and one of the first Members of the Royal Society. It is mentioned in the Life of the Bifhop by Dr. Walter Pope.

Sydenham died of the gout; and in the latter part of his life is defcribed as vifited with that dreadful diforder, and fitting near an open window, on the ground-floor of his houfe in St. James's fquare, refpiring the cool breeze on a fummer's evening, and reflecting with a ferene countenance, and great complacency, on the alleviation to human mifery that his fkill in his art enabled him to give. Whilft this divine man was enjoying one of these delicious reveries, a thief took away from the table, near to which he was fitting, a filver tankard filled with his favourite beverage, small-beer in which a fprig of rosemary had been immerfed, and ran off with it. Sydenham was too lame in his feet to ring his bell, and too feeble in his voice to give the alarm after him.

Sydenham has been accused of difcouraging ftudents in medicine from reading on their very complicated art. When Sir Richard Blackmore asked what books he fhould read on his profeffion,

he

he replied, "Read Don Quixote; it is a very

good book-I read it ftill." There might be many reafons given for this advice: at that time, perhaps, the art of medicine was not approaching fo nearly to a science as it is at prefent. He, perhaps, difcovered that Sir Richard had as fmall a genius for medicine as he had for poetry; and he very well knew, that in a profeffion which peculiarly requires obfervation and difcrimination, books alone cannot fupply what Nature has denied.

SIR JOHN TABOR, Knt.

WHEN Sir John went to Verfailles, to try the effects of the Bark upon Louis the Fourteenth's only fon, the Dauphin, who had been long ill of an intermitting fever, the physicians who were about the Prince did not chufe to permit him to prefcribé to their Royal Patient till they had asked him fome medical questions: amongst others, they defired him to define what an intermitting fever was. He replied, "Gentlemen, it is a difeafe which I વ can cure, and which you cannot.”

Louis, however, employed him to prescribe for his fon, which he did with the ufual fuccefs attendant upon the heaven-defcended drug which

he

he administered.

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The Bark was called for a long time afterwards, at Paris and at Verfailles, the English Remedy;" and La Fontaine himself, much out of his common method of writing, has written a Poem, addreffed to Madame de Bouillon, one of Cardinal Mazarine's nieces, entitled, "Le

Quinquina." It commemorates her recovery from a fever by the use of the Bark, then called by that name.

JOHN LOCKE.

THIS great philofopher is buried in the churchyard of a small village in Effex, called Oates. The infcription on his tomb-ftone that is appended to the fide of the church, is nearly obliterated. An urn has been lately erected to his memory in the gardens of Mrs. More's very elegant cottage near Wrington, in Somersetshire, with this infeription:

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"This Urn,

"facred to the memory "of JOHN LOcke,

a native of this village,

was presented to Mrs. HANNAH MORE

by Mrs. MONTAGUE.”

It

It is much to be wifhed that the gratitude of a lady to her inftructor fhould be imitated upon a larger fcale by a great nation, whofe envied fyftem of government he analyfed with the fame accuracy and fagacity with which he unravelled the intricacies of the human intellect, and that it fhould honour his memory with a magnificent memorial in one of its public repofitories of the illuftrious dead.

Mr. Locke's celebrated "Treatife on the "Reasonableness of Chriftianity" is well known. It is, perhaps, known only to few that he wrote fome letters to his pupil Lord Shaftesbury on the Evidences of Chriftianity. They are still in MS. Two gentlemen, who had perufed them, declared that they were written in fo affecting a manner, and with fuch an earneft defire to interest the young Nobleman for whofe fake they were written, that they could not refrain from tears while they were reading them.

Mr. Locke, in that small but excellent treatise of his "On the Conduct of the Understanding," chapter Fundamental Verities,' fays, "Our "Saviour's great rule, that we should love our "neighbour as ourselves, is fuch a fundamental "truth for the regulating human society, that "by that alone one might, without difficulty, "determine

determine all the cafes and doubts in focial

"morality."

Mr. Locke, in one of his Letters, fpeaking of the advantages of conversation, fays, "There are "fcarcely any two men that have perfectly the * fame views of the fame thing, till they come

with attention, and perhaps mutual affiftance, ແ to examine it; a confideration that makes con"versation with the living a thing much more "defirable than confulting the dead, would the "living but be inquifitive after truth, apply their "thoughts with attention to the gaining of it,

and be indifferent where it was found, fo they "could but find it."

In a letter of Mr. Locke's, not generally known, addreffed to Mr. Bold, who in a letter to him had complained that he had loft many ideas by their flipping out of his mind, he tells the latter, << I "have had fad experience of that myself; but "for that Lord Bacon has provided a fure remedy. "For, as I remember, he advises somewhere "never to go without pen and ink, or fomething, "to write down all thoughts of moment that

come into the mind. I must own I have often "omitted it, and have often repented of it. The "thoughts that come unfought, and (as it were)

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