The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-19
Memoirs Of a Distinguished Physician.

OH [1CIlEN l1OlisliluJ tllt usLtttyttisIcH Eup-
lish physician, whose visits to the United
States in 1865 and in 1866 are pleasantly re.
mcmbercd by those who met him; Eas writ
teii a volume of Rccollectionsh which has
just appeared from the press Of Langlnans,
in London. The veteran practitioner-now
eghty-four years Of age--has at command o
fund OF anecdote and rerniniscence, and his
book Is very entertaining. Born at Knut$
ford, in Cheshire, in 1888; he was placed as a
pupil in his eleventh year with Mr. Turner.
Of Ncwcastle-upon-Tync. There he remain
ed four years, and 1t was thcn more than
seventy years ago, that his love of travel was
first excited by crossing the backbone ofEng-
land over Blackstone Edge. "then long
and hard horse labor above ground, now ac-
complshed by n few minutes Of railroad
tunnel underneath"
Sir Henry Holland visited London for the
first time siXty-six years ago, and he remem-
bers shooting Old London bridge in q Thames
wherrv, in which, as all who have eXpe-
rienced it must recollect, there was little
dash of adventure. Beyond Tyburn turn
pike aud Hyde Park corner were bare aid
dismal fields, "now covered by two new
cities, rivalling many European capitals in
extent and grandeur"
DulliS ltlOIC liihn ldll StuIulN OlllS lNo
years occurred, and those were devoted to
Scotch and Irish excursions, in which Sir
Henry has not passed two autlImnal months
i'll Journeys or voyages abroad, accomplish
ing greater distances as nearer objects be-
came exhausted, and finding compensation
for growing age in the increased facilities of
travel. In these annual Journeys he has
visited and most Of them repeatedly, every
capital in Europe. lie has made eight voy-
ages to the United States and Canada, travel
ling over more than twenty=six thousand
miles Of the American continent. He has
made one voyage to Jamaica, and he has
been in the East four times, visiting Consta1l-
tiuople, various parts Of Asia Minor, Da-
mascus, Jerusalem, aud Cairo. He has made
three tours in Algeria, In one Of which he
was rudely awakened at Mcdeah By q &C.
we're shock Of earthquake, which "did not
better the digestion of dish Of .tilct de hon,
on which, in company with two French
officers" he had sl!pped the evening before.
"An experiment in diet" he adds, "not
likely to be repeated" In naddition to all this
he has made two journeys in Russia, several
in Sweden and Norway, paid repeated visits
| to Spain, Portugal, and Italy, made voyages
| to the Canary Islands. Western Da!matia, and
| other places, ending with Il second voyage to
! Iceland.
| Whether alone or in company, he has never
| been idle on his JOURNEYS. No victim to sea.
sickness, he has spent his time on the Allan,
tic either in breathing the fresh air and
gazing with wonder and intelligence on the
| mighty deep, or in writing scientific arti,
clcs for reviews and magazines. When
| on land many whimsical differences OF
scene and subject arose out Of his practice
"Therc was" he says. "somc pertinency in
writing on the Physical History of Man
| when within two hundred miles of Mount
AElrat. and on Humboldt's Cosmos at the
| toct Of the Peak of Tcncrific. But the IN.
conTrlitv became greater in pcnning part
| Of an article on Modern Chemistry under
| Tie shade Of liz trees at the Wells of Moses
on the Red sca; paragraphs Of another on
| MeteorS and AcTolitcS in IN Arab tent In
! Algeria; and portions Of third OH the lifC
and, character Of Julius Cesar, when travel
| ling Oil the Illinois plairics."
! He was exposed to professional demands
| on the part Of Ali Pasha, Fcly PaSha, his son,
and their Turkish and Albanian subordi
mates, involving an absurd mockcry OF prac.
tice, to which he tells us the term "ludicrolls y
was the slightest that could be applied. II
was at this early period Of his career that Sin
Henry Holland made that noble answer &c
Ali Fasha, in whose hands it must he rcmcn
| crcd that his life was when lie uttered it.
An altful conversation on poison, hc tells Us
! ended by the Pasha'S asking him whether II
knew OF any such poison which, put on The
mouthpicce of pipe or given in coffee
might slowly and silently Kill, leaving no note
behind. The short and prompt answer he
gave was that az physician he had studied
how to save life, not to destroy it.