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 122 DR. EDMUND BORLASE OF this skilful physician and celebrated historian so few particulars are known, that we should have been inclined to have passed him over in silence, had not his interesting account of the great rebellion in 1641, claimed our pecu- liar notice. He was the son of Sir John Borlase, master of the ordnance, and one of the lords justices of Ireland. He was born in Dublin, and received his education in the university of that city, and afterwards travelled to Leyden, his inclination for medicine leading him to prefer finish- ing his studies at that place, which was then the best school to acquire a knowledge of that art. He remained there for some years, and took his degree as doctor of physic in 1650, soon after which he returned to England, and was admitted to the same degree at Oxford. At length he settled at Chester, where he continued till his death in 1682, practising his profession with great repu- tation and success. The following may be enumerated among his productions. “Latham Spawn Lancashire; with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it," London, 1670, dedicated to Charles, Earl of Derby. “The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England; with the Governors, since the Conquest by king Henry II. anno 1170, and some Passages in their Government. A brief Account of the Rebellion Ann. Dom. 1641. Also the Original of the University of Dublin, and the College of Physicians.""Brief Reflections on the Earl of Castle- haven's Memoirs of his Engagement and Carriage in the War of Ireland. By which the Government of that time, and the Justice of the Crown since, are vindicated from stakes," (they said) " be stuck in the ground; and suffer each of us, tied to and supported by one of these stakes, to be plaeedt in his rank by the side of a sound man."" Between seven and eight hundred wounded men," (adds O'Halloran) 4 pale, emaciated, and supported in this manner, appeared mixed with the foremost of the troops!-Never was such another sight exhibited-History ef Ireland, book xii. ch. l.