But with all his specifics in store Death on Dalmahoy one day did pop; And although he had doctors a score, Made poor Dalmahoy shut up his shop.” “HENRY REVELL REYNOLDS, M.D., ‘Os placidum moresque benigni.’ “Here well-dressed Revell Reynolds lies, As great a beau as ever! We may perhaps see one as wise, But sure a smarter never. “Dr. Reynolds may be considered as the link between the ancient and modern costume of the Faculty: to the last, he wore a well-powdered wig and a silk coat. He was an excellent [p335] specimen of a well-dressed and well-bred gentleman. As a practitioner he ranked in the first class, and he was one of the physicians who attended King George the Third during his afflicting and protracted malady.” “RICHARD GRINDALL, ESQ. ‘Eamus quo ducet gula.’ “Within this place Dick Grindall lies, Who was a rare game chicken. So, so, friend Dick, an old chum cries, The worms have pretty picking! No Surgeon better lov’d himself; He lov’d old rum and brandy As much as misers do their pelf, Or children sugar-candy. And as for eatables—in short, He lov’d both roast and boil’d; Fish, flesh, or fowl, of any sort, If not by cooking spoil’d. But though full well he lov’d good cheer, It was a venial fault; Since Reason’s feast to him was dear, Season’d with _Attic Salt_. “He was an excellent surgeon of his day; that is, fifty years before Abernethy or Cooper was dreamt of. He was also a great oddity, but a perfect gentleman in his appearance and manner; never seen, by any accident, but in a well-powdered wig, silk stockings, and shoe-buckles. He practised in the City, when the city aristocracy resided within its walls, and Haberdashers’ “Hall, in the season, assembled all the wit, wisdom, and wealth of London merchants, in a sort of conclave of saltatory civic magnificos.” We just remember him, and that, after a long illness, he went round in his carriage to return thanks for “obliging inquiries,” leaving his card, on which was written, “the remains of Dick Grindall.” The third and last work we have to notice, comes more legitimately before us, and is a novelty in medical literature—a sort of _Sketch Book_, containing much entertaining anecdote, that makes the information it contains extremely amusing. The work is divided into three parts, as the alliterated title quaintly informs us—Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs. The first is a chronological record, giving, as it were, a “bird’s eye view” of the most interesting events in the history of medicine, from the time of the conquest up to the [p336] present century. The second consists of comments, or short essays, illustrative of some of the most important facts; and the third of biographical anecdotes. Under the head of “_Medical Books_,” we are presented with curious specimens of our earliest writers, with comments; but let the author speak for himself.