JOSEPH SKEY, M.D., a native of Worcestershire, and a doctor of medicine of Edinburgh of 25th June, 1798 (D.M.I. de Materie Sanguinis Combustibili), was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1803. He died at Baker-street, Portmansquare, 18th September, 1866, aged 93, being physician to the forces and inspector-general of army hospitals. CHARLES TICE, M.D., a native of London, and a doctor of medicine of Edinburgh of 12th September, 1802 (D.M.I. de Dysenteria), was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1803. SIR GEORGE SMITH GIBBES, M.D., was born in 1771, and was the son of the Rev. George Gibbes, D.D., rector of Woodborough, co. Wilts. He received his scholastic education at Southampton, under the Rev. Dr. Mant, father of the well-known bishop of that name. When sixteen years of age he was entered a commoner of Exeter college, Oxford, and as a member of that house graduated A.B. 17th February, 1792. Elected to a fellowship at Magdalen college he removed thither, and proceeded A.M. 21st May, 1795; M.B. 6th April, 1796; M.D. 11th April, 1799. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1803, a Fellow 25th June, 1804, and was Harveian orator in 1817. He settled at Bath, where he practised with distinguished reputation and success for a long series of years. In 1804 he was elected physician to the Bath General hospital; in 1819 was appointed physician extraordinary to queen Charlotte, and in 1820 received the honour of knighthood. He was in the commission of the peace for the county of Somerset. About 1835 Sir George Gibbes retired from the active exercise of his profession and removed to Cheltenham, whence he withdrew to Sidmouth, and died there on the 23rd June, 1851, aged 80. He was buried in the family vault at Woodborough, and is commemorated by a mural tablet in the church of All Saints, Sidmouth, of which his son the Rev. Heneage Gibbes* is the present incumbent. Sir George was a fellow of the Royal and of several other scientific and literary societies, foreign and domestic, and contributed several papers to their transactions: he was the author of— Observations on the Component parts of Animal Matters, and on their Conversion into a substance resembling Spermaceti. 8vo. 1796. A Treatise on the Bath Waters. 8vo. Bath, 1800. Outlines of a New Theory of Medicine. 8vo. Bath, 1815. JOHN REID, M.D., was born at Leicester, and received the early part of his general education under the Rev. Mr. Holland, of Bolton, co. Lancaster, after which he spent five years at the Dissenters' college at Hackney. Applying himself then to medicine, and acting on the advice of his friend, Dr. Pulteney of Blandford, he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine 12th September, 1798 (D.M.I. de Mania). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1804, and died at his house in Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, on the 2nd July, 1822. We have from his pen An Account of the Savage Youth of Avignon. Translated from the French. 12mo. Lond. 1801. A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, and Treatment of Consumption. 8vo. Lond. 1806. Essays on Hypochondriasis and other Nervous Affections. 8vo. Lond. 1821. HENRY CLUTTERBUCK, M.D., was born in 1770 at Marazion, co. Cornwall, and was the fourth son of a solicitor in extensive business in that town. He commenced the study of medicine by an apprenticeship to Mr. Kempe, a surgeon, at Truro, and at the age of twenty-one, came to London, when he entered to the united borough hospitals, and to the lectures of Dr. This exemplary clergyman was bred to physic, proceeded M.B. at Cambridge in 1826, as a member of Downing college, and was admitted an Inceptor-Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1830. Devoting himself to the church, he received ordination, and in 1841 withdrew his name from the College list. George Fordyce, Dr. Saunders, the elder Mr. Cline, and D. Andrew Marshall. In due course he became a member of the corporation of Surgeons, and then settled as a general practitioner in the city. Shortly after this, he commenced the publication of "The Medical and Chirurgical Review," a journal that appeared twice each month; of which he was the projector, editor, and almost sole writer, and which he continued for a period of fifteen years, until 1807, when it was discontinued. Determining to qualify himself as a physician, he relinquished his general practice, and in 1802 proceeded to Edinburgh for one year, but then transferred himself to Glasgow, where he graduated doctor of medicine 16th April, 1804 (D.M.I. quædam de sede et natura Febris complectens). Returning to the metropolis, he established himself in St. Paul's churchyard, and on the 1st October, 1804, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians. He was elected physician to the General dispensary in 1807, and about that time began to lecture on materia medica and the practice of physic. His lectures are said to have been like his writings, plain, forcible, and unadorned; full of practical facts, and with an entire absence of speculation. He delivered three courses on each subject in the year, and commanded a numerous class. His receipts, from this source alone, are said in one year to have exceeded one thousand pounds. In 1809, he sent to the press his Inquiry into the Seat and Nature of Fever," a work which attracted immediate attention, and established the character of its author as an original thinker, and one of the most energetic practitioners of his time. From this period, Dr. Clutterbuck's reputation and business steadily increased, and he soon took a position among the first physicians in the city. For more than fifty years he was a regular attendant at the meetings of the Medical Society of London, where he was known as a most effective speaker. "He might be considered the model of a debater on medical subjects; never for a moment carried away into statements which he could not substantiate, and always preserving the full command of his temper, he spoke with a deliberation and with a clearness which have been seldom excelled. The style of his address was rather cautious than energetic, and he was perfect in the choice of his language. Indeed it would be difficult to conceive a more finished composition of words than fell from the deliberate lips of Dr. Clutterbuck in a debate. He was so easy to follow and so clear in his statements that there was no possibility of misunderstanding him, and the shorthand writer who had to take his speech would, if he took it correctly, have no faults in style or composition to correct."* Dr. Clutterbuck continued in the active duties of his profession to the last. He had attended the anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London, 8th March, 1856. Having heard the oration at Willis's rooms, he left to walk home, and in crossing a street was knocked down by a cab. From the injuries thus received he never recovered. He died at his house in New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, 24th April, 1856. He retained his faculties to the last, and was said to have seen patients on the very day he died. In person Dr. Clutterbuck was somewhat above the middle height, and robust in form. His complexion was florid, his forehead massive, his features large. A portrait of him, painted by subscription, for the Medical Society_of London, is in the meeting-room of that institution. Dr. Clutterbuck, in addition to the work on fever, which came to a second edition in 1825, was the author of— An Account of a New and Successful Method of Treating those Affections which arise from the Poison of Lead. 8vo. Lond. 1794. Remarks on some of the Opinions of the late Mr. John Hunter respecting the Venereal Disease. 8vo. Lond. 1799. Observations on the Prevention and Treatment of the Epidemic Fever at present prevailing in this Metropolis and most parts of the Kingdom. 8vo. Lond. 1819. An Essay on Pyrexia or Symptomatic Fever. 8vo. Lond. 1837. On the Proper Administration of Blood-letting. 8vo. Lond. 1840. * Lives of British Physicians. 12mo. Lond. 1857, p. 403, et seq Essays on Inflammation and its Varieties. 8vo. Lond. 8vo. Lond. 1842. WILLIAM LAMBE, M.D., was born 26th February, 1765, at Warwick, and was the son of Mr. Lacon Lambe, an attorney practising in that town. After a good scholastic education at the Hereford grammar-school, he was entered at St. John's college, Cambridge, of which society he subsequently became a fellow. He proceeded A.B. 1786, and was fourth wrangler of his year, A.M. 1789, and M.D. 1802. Soon after taking his second degree in arts, he commenced business at Warwick, succeeding to the practice of his friend, Dr. Landon, who about that time withdrew from the active exercise of his profession. Whilst at Warwick, he made a minute chemical examination of the mineral water at Leamington, the results of which he published in the 5th vol. of the "Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Manchester.' Desirous of a wider field for his exertions, he, after a time, removed to London, was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians, 22nd December, 1803, and a Fellow, 22nd December, 1804. He was Censor in 1806, 1815, 1826, 1828; Croonian lecturer, 1814, 1815, 1816; Harveian orator, 1818; Elect, 30th September, 1828; and Consiliarius, 1839. He died at Dilwyn, whither he had retired, on the 11th June, 1847, aged 82, and was buried in the family vault in the churchyard of that parish.* Dr. Lambe was an et mores Particulas Neque vero, hoc loco, mihi silentio prætereundus est, quem nuper, gravem annis, amisimus Gulielmus Lambe quippe qui scientiæ chemica cultor esset haud spernendus, idem litteris humanioribus bene imbutus, atque medendi certè haud imperitus. plumbeas in aquis latitantes scite evocavit. Simplex erat et apertus ejus modestissimi, vita integerrima. Quod si paulo inconsultius carnem nobis omnino interdicere vellet, ignoscendum est tamen. Cuinam enim nocuit? Nemo, quod sciam, illi, de hac re, nisi ipse sibi, dicto fuit audiens. Vale! igitur lenis anima! qualis neque candidior, neque innocentior altera ad plures migravit: neque facile crederem te, in locis piorum lætis, beatisque sedibus, quemquam tibi iratum, veluti Ulyssi Ajacem, esse inventurum: namque irasci tibi vix potuerit aliquis, nisi vero si quis esset ita, plusquam tu ipse, Pythagoræus, ita cibum omnem nitrogenatum perosus, ut VOL. III. C |