Arsenic, strychnine, mercury, tartar emetic, the lancet and the blister were the great weapons of his warfare, and he was not afraid to use them. In his treatment there was no half and half -- he gave disease no quarter -- and it must be confessed that often, in drawing out the enemy, he shook the citadel terribly, but when he had slain the foe, if the patient survived, like a discriminating general, he was quick to take advantage of circumstances, stopping medication when he thought the case would warrant, or modifying it as the symptoms might demand. In his treatment of old diseases, especially those of the lungs, as in asthma of

.TAMES FOUNTAIN, M.D.

the aged, hydrothorax and bronchorrhoea, notwithstanding (or rather by the aid of) blood-letting, antimony, ptyalisni and blistering, he was remarkably successful, often holding the disease in abeyance for many years after it had become apparently incurable.

Neither in auscultation or percussion, nor, in fact, in any of the more modern modes of physical explorations, did he ever make much proficiency, and he professed but little fiiith in them, believing, until his death, that the rational signs of disease would generally lead the rational practitioner to a correct diagnosis.

In surgery he was not a brilliant operator, although his isolated jjosition and immense practice continually forced him to use the knife. It was his boa.st, and true, that during a practice of fifty years no irregular practitioner had been able to make any head in all his field of practice, and it must be added that during his prime it was a risky matter for any i)hy-