He was fully impressed at the begin
ning of his complaint, as well as
through every succeeding stage of it,
that its conclusion would be mortal—
submitting to the several exertions
made for his recovery rather as a duty
than from any expectation of their
efficacy. He considered the operation
of death upon his system as coeval
with the disease; and several hours
before his death, after repeated efforts
to be understood, succeeded in ex
pressing a desire that he might be per
mitted to die without further interrup
tion.
During the short period of his ill
ness, he economized his time in the
arrangement of such few concerns as
required his attention, with the ut
most serenity; and anticipated his ap
proaching dissolution with every
demonstration of that equanimity for
which his whole lift, has been so
uniformly and singularly conspic
uous.
J. BRAIK, Attending Physician.
E. C. DICK, Consulting Physi
cian.
How Medicine Is Taken.
Says the British Quarterly Review;
It is to be feared that to most people
medicine is not an erudite science or
a learned art, but is little more than
the commonplace administration of
physic. They can not understand
medicine whithout drugs,and its vir
tue and power are popularly meas
ured by the violence of its operations.
