His _medical precepts_ and _cautions_, which appeared in 1751, and was his last publication, affords an indisputable testimony, that length of years had not in the least impaired his intellectual faculties. Our author has herein furnished the public, with the principal helps against most diseases which he had either learned by long practice, or deduced from rational principles.[24] Who could with the same propriety take upon himself to be an instructor and legislator in the medical world, as he who had been taught to distinguish truth from falsehood, in the course of so extended an experience, protracted now to almost threescore years? to this may be added, that he has so contrived to blend the _utile dulci_, by embellishing his precepts with all the delicacy of polite expression, as to render them at the same time not less entertaining than instructive. [24] Preface to the _monita & præcepta medica_, p. 1. However, this work was productive of two other little pieces, from two gentlemen of the faculty: one by Dr. _Summers_; who in a pamphlet _on the success of warm bathing in paralytic cases_, controverts Dr. _Mead_’s assertion, that “hot bathing is prejudicial to all paralytics” ... “_calidæ vero immersiones omnibus paralyticis nocent_[25].”--Some reflections upon the advocates for Mrs. _Stephens_’s medicines, in the cure of the stone and gravel, by our author, occasioned a letter to him on that subject by Dr. _Hartley_ of _Bath_. The former expressed himself in the following manner; “_Neque temperare mihi possum, quin dicam in opprobrium nuper medicis nonnullis cessisse, quod insano pretio redimendi anile remedium magnatibus auctores fuerunt._[26]” ... “Nor can I forbear observing, tho’ I am extremely sorry for the occasion, that some gentlemen of the faculty a few years since acted a part much beneath their characters, first in suffering themselves to be imposed on, and then in encouraging the legislature to purchase an old woman’s medicine at an exorbitant price.”[27] Of this the latter complains as an unmerited indignity, “_Illud interea_ (inquit) _tanquem inopinatum, & ab æquitate tua alienum queri liceat_, TE, _qui in obvios quoscunque comis & urbanus esse, bene autem merentibus de re medica, vel etiam literaria quavis, summa cum benignitate favere soleas, in lithrontriptici fautores acerbiùs invectum fuisse; & non potius laudi illis dedisse, quod arcanum sine pretio vulgatum, virorum dignitate, fide, ingenio, artis nostræ peritiâ illustrium examini subjecerent, neque aliam viam ad præmium reportandum aperiri voluerint, quam quæ, veris licèt rerum inventoribus facilis & munita, jactatoribus tamen & falsiloquis esset impervia.[28]_” ... In the mean while, I cannot but complain of it as a thing unexpected, and greatly inconsistent with your usual candour, that YOU, who are so courteous and humane to all mankind, and so remarkably the patron of those who excel in the