Dr. Rand was an able physician, and a truly good man. He made rather a more liberal use of the learned terms of his profession, than was the practice of other physicians. With him, this arose from habit, and a desire to speak with accuracy, and not from affectation. Charles Austin was shot dead, in State Street, by Thomas O. Selfridge, August 4, 1806, in self-defence. Dr. Rand was a witness, at the trial; and his long and learned, professional terms, so completely confounded the stenographers, that they were obliged to beat the _chamade_, and humbly beg for plainer English. I have more to say of these interesting matters, but am too near the boundary wall of my paper, to enter upon their consideration, at present. No. CXII. In my last number, I referred to three eminent physicians, of the olden time, Drs. Lloyd, Danforth, and Rand. Some sixty years ago, there were three and twenty physicians, in this city, exclusive of quacks. The residences of the three I have already stated. Dr. James Pecker resided, at the corner of Hanover and Friend Street--Thomas Bulfinch, in Bowdoin Square--Charles Jarvis, in Common Street--Lemuel Hayward, opposite the sign of the White Horse, in Newbury Street--Thomas Kast, in Fish Street, near the North Square--David Townsend, in Southack's Court--John Warren, next door to Cromwell's Head, in South Latin School Street, then kept by Joshua Brackett--Thomas Welsh, in Sudbury Street, near Concert Hall--William Eustis, in Sudbury Street, near the Mill Pond--John Homans, No. 6 Marlborough Street--John Sprague, in Federal Street--Nathaniel W. Appleton, in South Latin School Street, near the Stone Chapel--Joseph Whipple, in Orange Street--Aaron Dexter, in Milk Street, opposite the lower end of the rope walks, that were burnt, in the great fire, July 30, 1794--Abijah Cheever, in Hanover Street--William Spooner, in Cambridge Street--John Fleet, in Milk Street--Amos Winship, in Hanover Street--Robert Rogerson, in Ship Street--Alexander A. Peters, in Marlborough Street--John Jeffries, who, in 1776, went to Halifax, with the British garrison, did not return and resume practice in Boston, till 1790. Ten years after, in 1799, the number had increased to twenty-nine, of whom nineteen were of the old guard of 1789. In 1816, the number had risen to forty-three, of whom eight only were of 1789. In 1830, the number was seventy-five, two only surviving of 1789--Drs. William Spooner and Thomas Welsh.