Note 139 — NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Of this truth it has been my duty and inclination to offer several proofs, of unquestionable authority, in different parts of the present work. Two additional ones now occur to my recollection, which I shall here insert. Mr. Pope, writing to Mr. Allen concerning his obligations to Dr. Mead and other Physicians, about a month before his death, says:—“There is no end of my kind treatment from the Faculty. They are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.”—The Rev. Dr. Samuel Parr, in a letter, with which he honoured me in September 1794, thus expresses himself:—“I have long been in the habit of reading on Medical subjects; and the great advantage I have derived from this circumstance is, that I have found opportunities for conversation and friendship with a class of men, whom, after a long and attentive survey of literary characters, I hold to be the most enlightened professional persons in the whole circle of human arts and sciences.”