patient has vomited and been purged, a full dose of twenty drops of liquid laudanum is to be given, or else fifteen or sixteen grains of Matthew’s pills.” Sydenham lived in Pall-Mall, and Cunningham in his Handbook of London has the following anecdote, which is of interest in connexion with his small beer and canary: “Mr. Fox told Mr. Rogers that Sydenham was sitting at his window looking on the Mall with his pipe in his mouth and a silver tankard before him, when a fellow made a snatch at the tankard and ran off with it. Nor was he overtaken, says Fox, before he got among the bushes in Bond Street, and there they lost him.” Sydenham lived in Pall-Mall from 1664 to 1689, and was buried in St. James’s Church. A near neighbour of his was Madame Elinor Gwynne, over whose garden wall King Charles II. used often to look as he walked in the Mall in St. James’s Park. Sydenham, I have said, was a licentiate of the College of Physicians, and was never a Fellow. In Chamberlayne’s “Present State of England” for 1682 I find a list of the Fellows, candidates, honorary Fellows, and licentiates of the College of Physicians. The name of Thomas Sydenham does not occur in this list, although it contains the name of his son, Dr. William Sydenham. In 1684 Dr. Hans Sloane, a young physician afterwards to be very famous, took up his abode with Sydenham. It was not till after Sydenham’s death that his reputation reached the exalted position in which it has been held. In the lives of many of the early physicians are interesting facts which throw considerable light on the progress of medicine, both as a branch of knowledge and a profession; but the exigencies of time and space compel me to be brief.