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 234 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. Warren arrived early at the highest practice in this great metropolis, and maintained his supre- macy to the last, with unfading faculties. The amount of revenue sometimes enters into the computation of a medical character, and such anecdotes, perhaps, form a link in the domestic history of the profession. He is said to have realized nine thousand a year, from the time of the regency ; and to have bequeathed to his family above one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. He died, at his house in Dover-street, on the 22d of June, 1797 : his disease was erysipelas of the head, which destroyed him in his sixty-sixth year, at the very time when the most sanguine hopes were entertained of his recovery by Sir George Baker and Pitcairn. His widow, two daughters, and eight sons survived him ; and have erected in Kensington church a just tribute, — Viro ingenio^ prudentidque aucto, optimarum artium disci- plinis ervdito, comitatis et heneficentim laude bonis omnibus commendatissimo. Dr. Turton suc- ceeded him as physician to the king and to the prince of Wales. Two memoirs were inserted by him in the Trans- actions of the College of Physicians ; in the first volume of that collection is one On the Bronchial Polypus^ and in the second, a not less interest- ing essay, On the Colica Pictonum. It rarely occurs to a family to witness, in two successive generations, the display of similar abilities, and^of success in the same pursuit ; but the son, who was educated to his own profession, shares at present the post of honour which his parent had so long occupied.