[105] [_Essays_, § 12. (_Works_, vol. ii. p. 271.)]

[106] See the Introduction to _Philosophical and Literary Essays_, by Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh, p. clxxxvii.

[107] The learned editor, Lipsius, observes in his note on this passage, “Persarum similis mos, ... et Cretensium, ... et Graecorum omnium veterum.”

[108] _Duties of Men_, chap. 12. vol. ii. p. 150.

[109] Chap. 12. vol. ii. p. 159.

[110] [Gisborne calls him “an _eminent_ writer.” There is a similar instance of Percival’s modesty below, p. 155.]

[111] Percival’s _Medical Ethics_, chap. i. § 23.

[112] [Rom. iii. 8.]

[113] Horace, _Sat._ i. 1. 106.

[114] [Alluding perhaps to _De Mendac._ c. 21. § 42. tom. vi. p. 444. ed. Bened., or to _Cont. Mendac._ c. 20. § 40. tom. vi. p. 472; but if so, St. Augustine’s meaning is not quite correctly given in the text.]

[115] _De Jure Belli ac Pacis_, lib. iii. cap. 1. sect. 10 [9?] §§ 2-4.—See also cap. 1. sect. 14-16.

[116] Spavan’s Puffendorff, vol. ii. chap. 1. p. 6.

[117] _Ibid._ p. 9.

[118] Leechman’s biographical Preface to Hutcheson’s _System of Moral Philosophy_, p. xxiv.

[119] _System of Moral Philosophy_, bk. ii. ch. 10. § 4. vol. ii. p. 32.

[120] [Rom. iii. 8.]

[121] _System of Moral Philosophy_, bk. ii. ch. 17. § 7. vol. ii. p. 132.

[122] See Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_, June 13, 1784.

[123] [St. Matth. vii. 12.]

[124] Pliny, _Epist._ iii. 16.

[125] Lady Rachel Russell’s _Letters_; Note to Letter 149.

[126] _Essays_, bk. ii. ch. 37. p. 703. [654. ed. 1711.]

[127] _Anecdotes of some Distinguished Persons_, vol. ii. p. 386.

[128] _Life of Sydenham._ (_Works_, vol. xii. p. 182.)

[129] In the Preface to his _Treatise upon the Small-Pox_.

[130] [In the Dedication to his _Observationes Medicae_.]

[131] Johnson’s _Life of Sydenham_, p. 183.

[132] [§ 1. vol. i. p. 32.]

[133] See Bulæi _Hist. Univers. Paris._, tom. iii. p. 158; Henry’s _Hist. of Great Britain_, bk. iv. ch. 4. § 1. vol. viii. p. 206.

Dr. Freind has given a somewhat different account of the celebrated School of Salerno:—“Sunt in eo decem Doctores, qui sibi invicem, juxta creationis ordinem, succedunt. Candidatorum examinatio severissima est, quae fit aut in Galeni _Therapeuticis_, aut in primo primi _Canonis_ Avicennae, aut in _Aphorismis_. Is qui Doctoratum ambit unum ac viginti annos habere debet, (verum hic lapsum subesse autumo, cum scribendum sit _viginti quinque_ vel _septem_,) ac testimonia proferre, quae per septem annos eum Medicinae studuisse doceant. Quod si inter Chirurgos recipi cupiat, anatomiam per anni spatium didicisse hunc oportet: jurandum ei est, fidelem se ac morigerum Societati futurum, praemia a pauperibus oblata recusaturum, neque Pharmacopolarum lucri participem fore. Tum liber in ejus manum traditur, annulus digito induitur, caput laurea redimitur, atque ipse osculo dimittitur. Multa alia statuta sunt ad praxeos ordinationem pertinentia; Pharmacopolae praesertim, ut juxta Medici praecepta componant medicamenta, et ut ea certo pretio divendant, obligantur.” _Hist. Medic._ (in _Oper. Med._ p. 537.)

[134] Consult Seb. Bacmeisteri _Antiq. Rostock._ [in Westphalen’s _Monum. Ined. Rer. German._, tom. iii.]; Crevier, _Hist. de l’Univers. de Paris._, tome i. p. 96; and Robertson’s _Hist. of Charles V._, vol. i. Note 28.

[135] Johnson’s _Life of Addison_. (_Works_, vol. x. p. 85.)

[136] _Ibid._ (?)

[137] See _Cod. Theodos._ xiii. 3. § 8.

[138] _Annal._ xi. 5, 7.

[139] Of this truth it has been my duty and inclination to offer several proofs, of unquestionable authority, in different parts of the present work. Two additional ones now occur to my recollection, which I shall here insert. Mr. Pope, writing to Mr. Allen concerning his obligations to Dr. Mead and other Physicians, about a month before his death, says:—“There is no end of my kind treatment from the Faculty. They are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.”—The Rev. Dr. Samuel Parr, in a letter, with which he honoured me in September 1794, thus expresses himself:—“I have long been in the habit of reading on Medical subjects; and the great advantage I have derived from this circumstance is, that I have found opportunities for conversation and friendship with a class of men, whom, after a long and attentive survey of literary characters, I hold to be the most enlightened professional persons in the whole circle of human arts and sciences.”

[140] Pt. i. § 3.

[141] See _Biographia Britannica_.

[142] [Or _Works_, vol. iii. p. 485.]

[143] [Dr. Parr adds, “and a _Percival_.” See above p. 133.]

[144] Chap. 12. vol. ii. p. 191.

[145] Lect. 2. p. 64.

[146] Lect. 2. p. 68.

[147] [Ps. cxxxix. 14.]

[148] See Percival’s _Father’s Instructions_, pt. iii. p. 312. (_Works_,