Commentaries on Some of the Most Important Diseases of Children

longer " set the table in a roar" with his inexhaustible fund of humour; but his writings will perpetuate his memory and his abilities. It is useless to deplore that fate which shortly awaits the pupil as well as the preceptor; the monarch as well as the subject! The intellectual labour, alone, like the soul, its source, survives the tomb, and outliVes the pyramid ! By certain bills of mortality prefixed to the work, it appears that nearly a fourth of the human species, in the metropolis, die under two years of age; and of the sur-vivors, about a fifth in the succeeding eight years. It is utterly inconsistent with the uniform goodness of the Cre-