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��scruples were certainly very distressing to himself, they give his friends a pious hope, that he, who added to almost all the virtues of Christianity, that religious humility which its great Teacher inculcated, will, in the fullness of time, receive the reward promised to a patient continuance in well-doing.

A few days after his departure, Dr. Brocklesby and Mr. Cruik- shank, who, with great assiduity and humanity, (and I must add, generosity, for neither they, nor Dr. Heberden, Dr. Warren, nor Dr. Butter, would accept any fees 1 ) had attended him, signified a wish, that his body might be opened. This was done, and the report made was to this effect :

Two of the valves of the aorta ossified.

The air-cells of the lungs unusually distended.

One of the kidneys destroyed by the pressure of the water.

The liver schirrous.

A stone in the gall-bladder, of the size of a common goose berry.

On Monday the soth of December, his funeral was celebrated and honoured by a numerous attendance of his friends, and among them, by particular invitation, of as many of the literary club as were then in town, and not prevented by engagements 2. The dean of Westminster, upon my application, would gladly have performed the ceremony of his interment, but, at the time, was much indisposed in his health ; the office, therefore, de volved upon the senior prebendary, Dr. Taylor, who performed it with becoming gravity and seriousness. All the prebendaries, except such as were absent in the country, attended in their surplices and hoods : they met the corpse at the west door of

1 Johnson, in his Life of Garth, me every attention, but will never

says : ' I believe every man has take a fee. This is uniformly the

found in physicians great liberality case whatever physician I consult,

and dignity of sentiment, very prompt and I have consulted all that are

effusion of beneficence, and willing- eminent.' H. More's Afe/TZtfzVs, 11.433.

ness to exert a lucrative art, where There is no reason to believe that

there is no hope of lucre.' the physicians of the present age

' I have been so ill, 3 wrote Hannah fall short of those whose beneficence

More, 'that my friends have sent Johnson and Hannah More cele-

Dr. Warren to me. He is a most brated.

agreeable, as well as able man ; pays 2 For a list of those who attended

their

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