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DEATH OF LORD DARNLEY.—We regret to state
that Lord Darnley expired yesterday from lock jaw in conse-
quence of the injuries he received in his foot.
The following advertisement from one of the Paris
journals is worthy the attention of some of the. same class of
"want-hunters" in London:—" L'on desire marier une de-
ooiselle de 22 ans, a lequelle on donne une dote de 400,000
frac cs. S'addresser, &c, &c."
ALIItRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY. Married on
Monday, the 2d instant, at Salt Mills Church, in this county,
by the Rev. William Archdall, Mr. Thomas Close, to Mrs.
Mary Bennett`• The age of the bridegroom was 76; and the
bride 73. WC.;
ford Conservative.

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ON THE DEATHS OF SOME EMINENTPERSONS., ,-

(From the Medical Gazette.)
Sir Henry alluded to the attention with which his
paper on the Deaths of some Illustrious Persons of
Antiquity had been received, as the motive for select-
ing his present subject, and laying before the meeting
some details connected with the 'decease of some dis-
tinguished men of more modern times.
The Learned President began his narrative by some
remarks upon the Monarch in whose reign the Col-
lege was founded, referring to the pictures of Holbeirr
in illustration of King Henry's manly beauty, and to
the remains of him which he had seen in his coffin,
and to his large arm-chair at Windsor, in proof of his
stature. The state of his health in more advanced
life, when he became corpulent and unwieldy, made
Henry the Eighth a great dabbler in medicine. In
fact, he not only prescribed as opportunity occurred,
but compounded the drugs himself, as appears by a
volume in the British Museum, containing a large col-
lection of Royal recipes. The Monarch, however,
could not avert from himself the evils of mortality, and
died, at the age of fifty-six, dropsical, and covered
with sores.

To Wolsey the King gave some excellent instruction 6
how to avoid the sweating sickness ; but the Cardinal,
who escaped that epidemic, died of a malady which
the Royal physician might more easily 'have prevented,
had he chosen—a broken heart, to which was added in

his last hours an attack of dysentery. The Earl of
Shrewsbury, at whose house he had been on his road
from Yorkshire, encouraged his distinguished guest to
think more favourably of his health ; but the Cardinal,
in reply to his cheering speeches, assuied the Earl that
he could not live—discoursing learnedly about his ail-
ment, which he said within eight days, if there were no
change, would necessarily produce " excoriation of the
entrails, or delirium, or death." This was on the

eighth day, when he confidently expected his death, and
expired after the cloek had struck eight, according to
his own prediction—" the very hour (says Shakspeare)
himself foretold would be his last." _ _

Edward the Sixth was carried off by disease of the
lungs, having had measles, as well as small-pox, the
preceding year, which left an obstinate cough behind.
He was put under the care of an ignorant woman by
the Earl of Northumberland, by whose treatment his
end seems to have been much accelerated. Sir henry

paid a high tribute to the memory of this intelligent
and amiable young King, whose bodily powers bore no
proportion to the extraordinary energies of his mind;
in this respect reminding the learned author of many
examples he has he has met with, where ill health in
young persons had led to great powers of reflection,
the preeocity of their intellectual development " com-
pensating them for the brevity of their earthly exist-
ence."

Oliver Cromwell, in his last illness, one morning
asked a physician who had sat up with him why he
looked so sad ; and being answered, that it became any
one to look grave who had the care of his life to an-
swer for, immediately replied—" Ye physicians think
I shall die ; I tell you I shall not die this time ; I am
sure of it. Do not shink lam mad ; I speak the
words of truth upon surer grounds than your Galen or
Hippocrates furnish you with. God Almighty him-
self hath given that answer." Under this confident
expectation of recovering, Cromwell allowed himself
to be removed from Hampton Court to London. On
the following day he became worse—grew lethargic—
then delirious—and died September 3, 1658. The
spleen was much diseased, and filled with matter " like
lees of oil." It is difficult., continued Sir Henry, to

read the history of this period without entertain-
ing a strong suspicion that Cromwell used those so-
lemn aspirations—that affected intercourse with
the Almighty—hypocritically, and with political
views. Archbishop Tillotson has remarked that the
above is a specimen of that enthusiasm which superse-
ded hypocricy with Cromwell ; but in modern days,
when we meet with such allegations in our intercourse
with patients, and find them influencing their conduct,
we think ourselves justified in applying to the Lord
Chancellor for a writ de lunatico znquirendo."
King Charles 11. (according to the account of his
physician, Sir C. Scarborough) had just risen from
his bed when he experienced an unusual sensation in
his head, shortly after which he fell down speechless,
and without the power of motion. An army surgeon,
who happened to b at hand, bled him to the extent of
sixteen ounces ; after which, on the arrival of the royal
physician, his Majesty was cupped, and other remedies
used—such as an emetic, purgatives, &c. ; but he ex-
pired on the fourth day. Had there been safety in a
multitude of councillors, the King's life musthave been ,
preserved ; for (added Sir Henry) " I perceive the sig-
natures of not less than fourteen physicians to one of
the prescriptions." Among the remedies prescribed
when he was sinking, was spiritus cranii humani
25 drops, which certainly has been improved upon in
our modern preparations of ammonia. The Learned
Baronet here mentioned that he had lately seen a pre-
scription in which a portion of the human skull was
ordered, in a powder, for Sir Nicholas Throckmorton.
It was dug out of the ruins of a house in Duke-street,
Westminster, which had belonged to Oliver Cromwell's
apothecary. On examining King Charles's head, a co-
pious effusion of lymph was found in the ventricles
and at the base of the cranium ; from whence Sir
Henry is disposed to think that he might have been
still further bled with advantage ; adding, that the re-
sult of his experience had convinced him, that, if large
depletion be not adopted in the first instance, every
thing else attempted afterwards will be unavailing. It
is quite evident, from Sir Henry's account, that Charles
11. died of apoplexy, and consequently that his indif-
ference to the solicitations of those about him, on reli-
gious matters, can only, with charity, be attributed to,
the effects of his disease. _ _

King William, the' Prince of Orange, had weak
frame, and was asthmatic, with a constant cough: He
died, at length, of an enormous secretion into the
lungs, which first embarrassed, and ultimately pre-
vented respiration. The lungs were adherent to the
pleura costalis, and a fall from his horse, which he had
shortly before met with in Hampton Court Park, and
by which be had broken his collar-bone, had detached
a portion of the adhesion and excited inflammation.
Mary, the consort of William, died of small-pox ;
and it is remarkable that Bishop Burnet blames Dr.
Radcliffe in rather harsh terms, for his treatment of
her case. The Learned Prelate mentions that Marshal
Schomberg advised him never to give an opinion upon
a military subject ; and " I wish (said Sir Henry)
that he had received similar council from a physician,
and had abstained from remarking on medical affairs."
The censure of the Bishop seems to have been quite
uncalled for.
Dryden died of ossification of the arteries of the ex-
tremities, such as produces mortification. His body
" lay in state, in the College of Physicians, during
ten days, and was then conveyed to Westminster Ab-
bey with great ceremony."
The disease which occasioned Dean Swift to ex-
pire " a driveller and a show," was of a paralytic na-
ture ; to which circumstance Sir Henry is inclined to
attribute that aberration, not to say depravity of mind,
which has excited so much scandal.
" Now I believe," said he, " this irritability was bo-
dily disease ; and so far from considering the unsocial
and untoward mind as influencing the body to its de-
triment, I would contend that the corporal distemper
was the cause of the perverse and unhappy state of the
mind; that Swift's irritability was of that peculiar nature
which accompanies palsy, the seat of which is generally
in the brain. Swift was in the habit of suffering severe
attacks of headach, and of dizziness, and occasional deaf-
ness, when young ; even so early in his life as during his
sojournment with Sir William 'Temple. In process of
time there ensued that plethoric state of the vessels of
the brain which required frequent cupping ; and at
length the obstruction became so great as to occasion
an effusion of water into the ventricles, and the loss of
his faculties by apoplectic pressure. This appeared
on examination of the head after death. No doubt
this effusion had been preceded by inflammation of the
membranes of the brain, and by phrensy. Under these
attacks of inflammation and phrensy, he dealt forth his
angry denunciations largely ; and probably it was in
one of these unhappy moments that he composed the
epitaph so injudiciously inscribed on his tomb-stone in
St. Patrick's Cathedral."