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 182 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. same time, preparing two other volumes, con- taining the prescriptions referred to in the pre- vious ones. He did not long survive his return to London. On the 14th of January, 1782, he was dining with a small club, which was held at Watson's, in the Strand ; a fit seized him, from which he never re- covered. He died a few days after, in his seventy- fifth year. Pringle devoted much time to the study of di- vinity during the latter part of his life. In early life, his religious opinions seem to have been fluc- tuating, but he dihgently investigated the subject in his maturer days, and became an earnest reader of commentators on the Scriptures, and of ser- mons. He published, at his own expense, some Theological Letters, which Michaelis had ad- dressed to him. Bacon was his favourite author; in his school he had endeavoured to discipline his mind. To metaphysics, which he had formerly publicly pro- fessed, he latterly lost all attachment. Though he did not derive much pleasure from poetry, he was a lover of music, and had even been a per- former at a weekly concert at Edinburgh. A monument was erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey ; and Vicq d'Azyr, as well as Condorcet, celebrated his name in eulogies deli- vered before the Academy of Paris. He must be ranked with the most successful individuals who have ever cultivated physic, since he obtained, conjointly, the patronage of the great, the respect of the learned, and the confidence of the public.