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Dictionary; the title is Flore du Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales, of which five parts had made their appearance in the month of May last.

DIED, at Philadelphia, on the fifth of August, 1815, in the 42d year of his age, Dr. JAMES GLEN, for several years past a Practitioner of Physic in this city. By the premature death of this gentleman, society is deprived of the services of one of its most useful and respectable professional characters.

Dr. GLEN was a native of Savannah, in the State of Georgia, and descended from one of the most ancient and respectable families of that state. After the completion of his medical education in Philadelphia, he was induced, by the delicacy of his constitution, and its inability to support a southern climate, to settle in Pennsylvania, and selected for his residence the county of Montgomery; where, by his diligence, skill and fidelity, his practice soon extended over an extensive district of country. After the expiration of some years, believing his health to be permanently established, he returned to his native state, where the liberal patronage of numerous and respectable connections, opened to him an extensive field of lucrative practice.

But he was constrained, in the course of a few years, by the declining state of his health, to return to the more congenial climate which he had left; and after spending some time in the village of Holmesburg near Philadelphia, where he married into a respectable family, he established himself in Philadelphia-here he was enabled to devote himself with renewed zeal and usefulness to the duties of his profession, and more particularly and immediately to one of its most interesting branches.

Such was the situation of this gentleman, when the hand of death, by a fatal casualty, suddenly arrested him in the career of usefulness. This event was produced by a fall from his chaise, and a consequent concussion of the brain, which, after a period of eleven days, terminated his existence.

As a professional character, the unremitting and skilful labours of Dr. GLEN were justly proved and appreciated by the

high confidence reposed in him by all those who were placed under his medical care.-Uniting an unusually sound judgment with the advantages of a liberal education, and a habit of cool and dispassionate reflection, he preserved himself, throughout his practice, alike free from the trammels of ancient dogmas, and the more dangerous and seductive influence of untried and visionary theories-this rendered him a safe and successful practitioner.

In the various relations of private life, and in the exercise of all the social duties, those only could justly estimate the worth of this amiable man, who were within the more immediate circle of his intimate and selected friends. With a mind under the habitual influence of the benevolent affections, and a sincere good will for all mankind, he steadily pursued, amidst the vicissitudes of life, the tranquil and modest tenor of his way; and in the strict observance and discharge of his sacred duties, he was truly exemplary.

Seldom indeed, have the afflictive dispensations of Providence been more forcibly brought home to our feelings, than in the sudden removal of this amiable man from the midst of society, and from the bosom of his infant family.

At Manchester, England, aged 52, JOHN FERRIAR, M.D. one of the physicians of the Manchester Infirmary. The eminent rank which he held in his profession was founded on a long and general experience of the efficacy of his advice. He was endowed by nature with an acute and vigorous understanding, which he had matured, by a life of diligent study, and of careful and well digested observation, into a judgment unusually prompt and correct in its decisions. The purposes of his sagacious mind were pursued also with a steadiness of determination which generally secured their accomplishment; and unexpected difficulties in the treatment of diseases he encountered with firmness, and with great fertility of invention. As a professional author he had obtained a high rank, and the world is indebted to him for a large fund of valuable knowledge, conveyed in a style, which, for perspicuity, strength, and simplicity,

is a model to medical writers. These works will be his durable monument as an improver in the art of medicine. His attainments as a polite scholar will be preserved by writings in which he displayed correct taste, extensive reading, and original views of his subjects. In the common relations of life he was a man of inflexible honour and integrity, a warm and steady friend, and a tender and indulgent parent.-London Monthly Magazine, March, 1815.

We have to lament the death of that celebrated and truly deserving character, JAMES WARE, Esq. of Bridge-street. This gentleman who has contributed so much to improve the practical part of surgery in his department as an oculist, was not more distinguished as a surgeon than for his enlarged philanthropy. In partnership with the late Mr. Jonathan Wathen, he was probably the first English surgeon who separated this branch of the art from general practice. When Mr. Phipps, grandson to Mr. Wathen, became of an age to take part in the practice, the two former separated, Mr. W. uniting with his grandson. It was soon found that the town was large enough for all three. The partners removed to the west, and Mr. Ware continued for the remainder of his life in the city, with a country house at Turnham Green, which enabled him to attend his patients in the west without inconvenience. Apparently of a delicate frame, a premature old age assailed him, though constantly prudent in every part of his life. We shall, in our next, give a more detailed account of his history, but cannot conclude these few remarks without mention of his exemplary liberality to the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans, of which he was among the early founders, and for several years President. Besides his customary donation, he presented them during life with a fund, the interest of which was divided among such of the directors as attended the quarterly courts with punctuality, and staid the whole time of necessary business.

We have in one of the newspapers a remark which would lead us to suppose, that Mr. Ware had relinquished the use of laudanum altogether in inflammation of the eye. As his

experience increased, it is probable that he varied his remedies; but the vinous solution of opium was, we believe, always retained.-London Medical and Physical Journal, May, 1815.

It is with much concern that we announce the death of SMITHSON TENNANT, Esq. F.R.S. and Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge; a man in whom genius, talents, and virtue, were united in their highest forms. Although his industry was checked by a frame naturally weak, and a languid state of health, his acquirements in science were general, in chemistry most profound, with a correctness not exceeded by Woolaston.

The circumstances of Mr. Tennant's death were most afflicting. He was returning from France, where he had been several months, and was waiting at Boulogne for a favourable wind. He had actually embarked on Wednesday, the 22d of February, but the vessel was obliged to put back: and it was determined, if the weather should be tolerable, to make another trial in the evening. During the interval Mr. T. proposed to a German officer of distinction, whom he had accidentally joined on the road, and who was also going to England, to ride with him to Bonaparte's Pillar, near Boulogne. In returning he deviated a little to look at a fortification near the road. But as they were attempting to pass a draw-bridge, which, owing to some neglect, was not properly secured, the bridge gave way, and they were precipitated into the trench. The officer fortunately escaped without any serious hurt; but Mr. Tennant was found fallen under his horse, and was taken up speechless, his skull and one of his arms being considerably fractured. He was conveyed with difficulty to the hospital at Boulogne, as the nearest and most convenient place to receive him, and expired in half an hour. His remains were interred at Boulogne.-Ibid.

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