ghters, still survive. of these ladies, how. Gregory could not raise, the biographer › mention their names le course of their faMr. Good, either owthe imprudent prac> his friends, became iary affairs. This had lating him to literary ys, translations, and esired effect; he then hout discovering the and at last, to somehed a correspondence spaper and review. with his family, to to partnership with a conduct the business character," says Dr. o be duly appreciated nd, on the 7th of Noa Member of the Coldo not understand the ps there is a typograer, he obtained a less becoming an active 1 Society, and of the Association; and, at f his colleagues in the of Medicine, so far as on of the Apothecary," 795.

nslation of Lucretius; t himself to study the ing previously made 1 the French, Italian, se. The Arabic and added to his acquisihed his translation of omposed in the streets ranslator's waiks to vi

not so extraordinary a egory imagines; if the tood still except when rworkshops, a weekly hire a two-inch thick tato support the subjects lection.

roductions now followuccession till 1812. Of ngs," ," "Translation of his contributions to the best known. In 1810 he res at the Surrey Instiof which treated of the

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Up to this period, and indeed for some time after, his health had been almost uniformly good, which will not be deemed so extraordinary even in a man who read, wrote, and thought so much as Dr. Good, when it is recollected that his bodily exertions were, of necessity, almost equal to those of his mind. Even in London, when visiting his patients on foot, he must have walked enough to counterbalance the effects of more than one sheet per diem: and when the lazy luxury of a coach was substituted for this healthful exercise, it is not wonderful that the mental pressure of study should have increased, even to the extinction of life. On the 2d of January, 1827, in the 63d year of his age, John Mason Good died of a carriage, a disease of fatal, and, we believe, not very unfrequent recurrence in the history of physicians.

Dr. Good was a man of great and versatile talents. As a medical writer his name stands high; and as a physician his practice was extensive and successful. He was not, and, from his education and opportunities, could not be profoundly learned; but the stores of knowledge, collected by unwearied industry, carried on with a kind of enthusiasm in research, were in him as valuable, for all practical purposes, as abstruse learning. In religion, he began by being a Trinitarian, in the sequel he was a Socinian, and in conclusion, a strict Christian according to the doctrines of the Church of England. It is not known at what precise period his mind reverted to the truth; but, in 1807, he intimated by letter to the minister he had been in the habit of attending, that he could no longer countenance by his presence a system which, even admitting it to be right, was at least repugnant to his own heart and his own understanding." The terms in which this renunciation was made are, at the least, ill-chosen, and among verbal critics might be made the subject of some controversy. In private life he was a good husband, a good father, and a good

man.

Such is the groundwork on which this heavy superstructure of letter-press has been raised. As it partakes, however, more of the nature of the fungus than of any thing more tough or solid, it will not prove such a crux lectorum as might be imagined. Let the religious part be abridged, the miserable verses that occupy a great part of the volume, under the felonious alias of poetry, cancelled, and nine-tenths of the reflections omitted, and the residuum will prove just such a volume as Dr. Good deserves, and as a rational friend would desire to

wate to his memory