clay-house of this world forsook, and the house everlasting entered." In the church of St. Bartholomew may still be seen the tomb of Dr. Francis Anthony, who, in spite of the prosecutions of the College of Physicians, enjoyed a large practice, and lived in pomp in Bartholomew Close, where he died in 1623. The merits of his celebrated nostrum, the _aurum potabile_, to which Boyle gave a reluctant and qualified approval, are alluded to in the inscription commemorating his services:-- "There needs no verse to beautify thy praise, Or keep in memory thy spotless name. Religion, virtue, and thy skill did raise A three-fold pillar to thy lasting fame. Though poisonous envy ever sought to blame Or hide the fruits of thy intention, Yet shall all they commend that high design Of purest gold to make a medicine, That feel thy help by that thy rare invention." Boyle's testimony to the good results of the _aurum potabile_ is interesting, as his philosophic mind formed a decided opinion on the efficacy of the preparation by observing its operation in _two_ cases--persons of great note. "Though," he says, "I have long been prejudiced against the _aurum potabile_, and other boasted preparations of gold, for most of which I have no great esteem, yet I saw such extraordinary and surprising effects from the tincture of gold I spake of (prepared by two foreign physicians) upon persons of great note, with whom I was particularly acquainted, both before they fell sick and after their dangerous recovery, that I could not but change my opinion for a very favourable one as to some preparations of gold." Attached to his priory of St. Bartholomew's, Rahere founded an hospital for the relief of poor and sick persons, out of which has grown the present institution, over the principal gateway of which stands, burly and with legs apart--like a big butcher watching his meat-stall--an effigy of Henry VIII. Another of the art treasures of the hospital is the staircase painted by Hogarth.