During the imprisonment of Dr. Friend in the tower, Dr. Head attended his patients, and on his liberation he presented him with 5000_l._ the amount of the fees received on his account. Dr. Meade's practice averaged from 5000_l._ to 6000_l._ per annum. It is somewhat strange, that this celebrated physician whose evenings were generally spent in convivial meetings at Batson's Coffee-house, used in the forenoon to receive consulting apothecaries at a tavern near Covent-garden, prescribing for the patients without seeing them at half-a-crown fee. ENTHUSIASM. Enthusiasm, from its derivation, might in strictness be called a _fixity of idea in divinity_; but Locke has given a better definition of this morbid state of our intellectual faculties in considering it as a heated state of the imagination, "_founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but arising from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain_." I shall not venture to take the field of controversy to support this doctrine against that of some metaphysicians, who most probably would consider this mental aberration as an original and natural judgment inspired by the Almighty, founded not on reason or reflection, but an instinctive impulse of the powers of the mind. The Hebrews named this impulse _Nabi_ [Hebrew], (plural _Nebiim_,) "to approach or enter," on the surmise that the spirit pervaded the prophets, who were called _Roeh_ [Hebrew], or _Seeing_, hence _Seers_. Plato divided enthusiasm into four classes. I. _The Poetical_, inspired by the Muses. II. _The Mystic_, under the influence of Bacchus. III. _The Prophetic_, a gift of Apollo; and IV. _The Enthusiasm of love_, a blessing from Venus Urania. This immortal philosopher was not the visionary speculatist which some writers have represented him; his logic did not consist of frivolous investigations, but embraced the more useful subject of correct definition and division, as he sought to reconcile practical doctrines of morality with the mysticism of theology by the study of Divine attributes. Whatever some of the Eclectic philosophers might have asserted, Plato considered that our ideas were derived from external objects, and never contemplated the extravagant doctrine of imbodying metaphysical abstractions, or personifying intellectual ideas.