"Madam scolded one day so long, She sudden lost all use of tongue! The doctor came--with hum and haw, Pronounc'd th' affection a lock'd jaw! 'What hopes, good sir?'--'Small, small, I see!' The husband slips a _double fee_; 'What, no hopes, doctor?'--'None, I fear;' Another fee for issue clear. "Madam deceased--'Pray, sir, don't grieve!' 'My friends, one comfort I receive-- A _lock'd jaw_ was the only case From which my wife could die--in peace.'" CHAPTER X. PEDAGOGUES TURNED DOCTORS. In the church of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, is a monumental stone engraved with the following inscription:-- "Qui medicus doctus, prudentis nomine clarus, Eloquii splendor, Pieridumque decus, Virtutis cultor, pietatis vixit amicus; Hoc jacet in tumulo, spiritus alta tenet." It is in memory of John Bond, M.A., the learned commentator on Horace and Persius. Educated at Winchester school, and then at New College, Oxford, he was elected master of the Taunton Grammar-school in the year 1579. For many years he presided over that seminary with great efficiency, and sent out into the world several eminent scholars. On arriving, however, at the middle age of life, he relinquished the mastership of the school, and turned his attention to the practice of medicine. His reputation and success as a physician were great--the worthy people of Taunton honouring him as "a wise man." He died August 3, 1612. More than a century later than John Bond, schoolmaster and physician, appeared a greater celebrity in the person of James Jurin, who, from the position of a provincial pedagogue, raised himself to be regarded as first of the London physicians, and conspicuous amongst the philosophers of Europe. Jurin was born in 1684, and received his early education at Christ's Hospital--better known to the public as the Bluecoat school. After graduating in arts at Cambridge, he obtained the mastership of the grammar-school of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, January, 1710. In the following year he acquired the high academic distinction of a fellowship on the foundation of Trinity College; and the year after (1712) he published through the University press, his edition of Varenius's Geography, dedicated to Bentley. In 1718 and 1719 he contributed to the Philosophical Transactions the essays which involved him in controversies with Keill and Senac, and were, in the year 1732, reprinted in a collected form, under the title of "Physico-Mathematical Dissertations." Another of his important contributions to science was "An Essay on Distinct and Indistinct Vision," added to Smith's "System of Optics." Voltaire was not without good reason for styling him, in the _Journal de Savans_, "the famous Jurin."