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Inceptor-Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1817, a Candidate 30th September, 1820, and a Fellow 1st October, 1821. He was Censor in 1823. Dr. Cloves practised for a few years in London, and then removed to Worthing, where he died 5th May, 1842, aged forty-nine.

FRANCIS WILLIS, M.D., was the son of Robert Darling Willis, M.D., a Fellow of the College beforementioned. Educated at Brasenose college, Oxford, he proceeded A.B. 15th January, 1814, A.M. 5th June, 1816, M.B. 16th April, 1817, and M.D. 27th March, 1820; was admitted an Inceptor-Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1818, a Candidate 30th September, 1820, and a Fellow 1st October, 1821. He was Gulstonian lecturer in 1822, and Censor in 1824; soon after which he devoted himself exclusively to the treatment of insanity, and became proprietor of Shilling thorpe house, near Stamford, co. Lincoln, where he died after a long and painful illness, on the 29th July, 1859, aged sixty-seven. He was the author of

A Treatise on Mental Derangement. 8vo. Lond. 1823.

JOHN WARBURTON, M.D., was born in Middlesex, and educated at Caius college, Cambridge. He graduated M.B. 1815, had a licence ad practicandum from the university 4th December, 1818, and proceeded M.D. 1820. He was admitted an Inceptor-Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1818, a Candidate 30th September, 1820, and a Fellow 1st October, 1821. He was Censor in 1824. He was born and nursed in competency (wrote his friend Dr. Chambers), and grew up and lived and died in opulence, presenting throughout an eminent example of youth unallured by wealth into idleness or vice, but spent in the due cultivation of his mind and faculties, so that, besides possessing himself of the ordinary education and accom

Lancet, of 14th March, 1846, p. 293.

plishments of an English gentleman, he became a considerable proficient in mathematical science, which the high degree he took at Cambridge sufficiently testifies. He devoted himself to the study and treatment of insanity, and on the 19th May, 1829, was elected physician to St. Luke's hospital. There he laboured most heartily in his vocation, and distinguished himself not only by exemplary kindness and attention to the patients, but also by the most anxious solicitude for the amelioration of the institution itself. Dr. Warburton died at his house in Park-crescent, Portland-place, 2nd June, 1845, aged fifty-two, and was buried in Highgate cemetery.

THOMAS FOSTER BARHAM, M.B., of Queen's college, Cambridge, of 1820, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 8th November, 1821. He practised for some years in Exeter, and died at Highweek, co. Devon, on the 3rd March, 1869, aged seventyfour. We owe to his pen

The Enkheiridion of Hehfaisticon concerning Metres and Poems, translated into English, and Illustrated by Notes and a Rhythmical Notation. With Prolegomena on Rhythm and Accent. 8vo. Lond.

1843.

RODERICK MACLEOD, M.D., was born in Scotland, and educated at Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine 1st August, 1816 (D.M.I. de Tetano). He began his medical life in the army, but before long was placed on half-pay, and then settled in London. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1821, a Fellow 9th July, 1836; was Gulstonian lecturer in 1837, and Consiliarius 1839. Dr. Macleod was elected physician to St. George's hospital 13th February, 1833, and resigned that office in consequence of ill health in 1845. He died at Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, on the 7th December, 1852. Dr. Macleod will be long remembered as the original editor and for many years the proprietor of the "London Medical Gazette," the first number of which appeared on the 8th December,

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1827. At that time and for some years afterwards, "the medical weekly press contained much that all men will desire to forget. The cause of medical reform was hotly advocated, with an indiscriminate zeal and a personal acrimony which the best among its leaders have long since regretted, and the best among its victims have long since forgiven. For an editor who was called to stem the torrent which had arisen, there was required a combination of moral and physical courage, with professional and literary ability, rarely to be met with in the leading members of a profession which especially demands the devotion of the highest talents to the most private and unobtrusive labours. Dr. Macleod performed the duties of an editor in those stormy days with a success which can be justly measured only by those who take a high view of the responsibilities of that office. In the more peaceful time which followed, when active conflict no longer demanded the sterner qualities of the editorship, then the cultivated mind, the correct taste, and the practical good sense which distinguished Dr. Macleod were employed with untiring energy in choosing, directing, and combining the delicate elements, intellectual, social, and material, required in the conduct of a high class publication. The veteran editor, thoroughly upright, courteous, and kind-hearted, as all who knew him can testify, maintained for many years as a valuable literary property, the journal which had been undertaken in the true spirit of professional chivalry."*

Dr. Macleod was the author of—

On Rheumatism in its various forms, and on the Affections of Internal Organs, more especially the Heart and Brain, to which it gives rise. 8vo. Lond. 1842.

HANANEL DE LEON, M.D., a native of Jamaica and a doctor of medicine of Edinburgh of 2nd August, 1819 (D.M.I. de Hydrocephalo), was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1821.

* Medical Times and Gazette, 18th December, 1852.

CHARLES JULIUS ROBERTS, M.D., was born in Farringdon-street and educated at St. Paul's school. He began the study of medicine in London, and continued it at Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine 1st August, 1820 (D.M.I. de Diæta et Regimine Phthisicorum). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1821, and settled in New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, where he continued to practise until his death, which occurred at the house of a friend at Surbiton-hill on the 27th September, 1851. Dr. Roberts was the author of

Hints on the Domestic Management of Children. 12mo. Lond.

1838.

JAMES ADEY OGLE, M.D., was the son of a medical practitioner in London, and was educated at Eton. He was entered at Trinity college, Oxford, in 1809; took a first class in mathematics, and became a scholar of Trinity, but married before succeeding to a fellowship. He proceeded A.B. 21st October, 1813; A.M. 24th April, 1816; M.B. 24th May, 1817, and M.D. 3rd February, 1820. He had passed two winter sessions in attendance on the medical classes at Edinburgh, and had been for some time a student at St. George's hospital. He was admitted an Inceptor-Candidate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1820, a Candidate 30th September, 1820, a Fellow 1st April, 1822. He delivered the Harveian oration in 1844. Dr. Ogle settled at Oxford; in 1824 was appointed Aldrichian professor of the practice of medicine; in 1830 Aldrichian professor of clinical medicine, and in 1851 Regius professor of physic. He died at the vicarage, Old Shoreham, the residence of his son-in-law, the Regius professor of Divinity at Oxford, of apoplexy, on the 25th September, 1857, aged sixty-five, and is buried in Holy Cross cemetery, Oxford.

Dr. Ogle was the author of " A Letter to the Reverend the Warden of Wadham College on the System of Education pursued at Oxford, with Suggestions for re

were remarkable. He had acquired, under his father's tuition, a good knowledge of Latin, Greek, and French. To these he soon added Italian, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, and then German, after which he applied himself to Arabic and Persian, and later on to Russian, Sanscrit, and Chinese. From the year 1797 he was largely occupied in writing for reviews and other perio

cal publications; he contributed to the Analytical and Critical Reviews, and to the British and monthly magazines. He was for some time editor of the Critical, and many of the more elaborate articles in that review were from his pen. Whilst thus occupied, he commenced his translation of Lucretius, one of the works en which his fame with posterity will chiefly rest. This work he undertook partly at the entreaty of some Berary friends, but principally that he might bring him

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if under a necessity of becoming thoroughly acquainted with the utmost possible variety of subjects upon which men of literature and science had been able to throw light. The translation was done in the streets of don, in the course of Dr. Good's walks to his patients. notes, which are extensive and numerous, were l at home. They evince an union of learning, and judgment such as is rarely found united. fully occupied in general practice and amidst he distractions inseparable from that department cine, Dr. Good, in conjunction with Dr. Olinthus Gregory and Mr. Newton Bosworth, brought out arominous compilation or cyclopædia of general science. "The Pantologia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Words." 12 vols. royal 8vo. 1813. Of the many languages of which Dr. Good was master, Hebrew was the one to which he was the most devoted and of which his knowledge was the most profound and critical. His translations of the "Song of Songs" and of " The Book of Job," are said to have secured him an eminent station among Hebrew scholars and the promoters of biblical criticism.

Dr. Good's medical repu

tation rests on his "Physiological System of Nosology,"

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