The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-02-14
Mem oirs Of a Distinguished Phv
sici0n.

Sir Henry Holland, the distinguished Eng22
lish physician, whose visits to the United
States in 1863 and 1866 are well remembered
BY those who met him, has written velum3
OF RecOllections," which has just aPU
peared from the press of Lasgmans IN LoaX
don, The veteran practiti0ner-now
wears OF age-haS at command fund OF an
ccdOte and Renaissance, and his book
very entertaining Born at kHutsford II
Cheshire in 1888. he was placed as pupil N
his Ilth wear ith Mr.. Turner, of Newcastle
upen-Tyne There he remained four years
and ir was then, more than 20 years ago, ina
his love of travel was first excited by cross
ino the backbone of England over BLACK
stone Edge, ''then long and nara nors1
labor above ground, now accompllsheuo oy
few minutes of railroad tunnel underneath:
Sir Henry Holland visited London Tor tn1
first time sixfy-six years ago, and ne re
members shooting Old LondOn-bridge In
Thames wherry, in which. as all who hav1
experienced it must recOilect, there was
little dash of adventure. Beyond IyDur1
Turnpike and Hyde Park corner, were part
and dismal fields, now covered by two new
cities, rivalling many European capitals II
extent and grandeur"
During more than half century onl1
two wears occurred and those were devote9
10 Scotch and Irish excursiOns-in whic1
SlT 1tDIy HIS ilot pficsSN Wv"
months in Journeys or voyages abroad, ac
complishng create distances as nearer 90
iecrs became exhausted, and finding conn
pensatiun for growing aye IN the lncreaset
facilities of travel. In these annual jour
reys he has visited, and most OF tnem re
peatedJy. every capital IN Europe; ne ma
made eight voyages to the United states ans M
Canada, travelling over more lnah 20 W
m,l1S of the American continent. ne ia
mod one voyage to Jamaica, ana ne na
noe,, in O t,,. East four times, visiting CON
oetn III IN. various parts OF Asia Minor
nano,, or Isalem, and { ir0. he hs
r,ada ,hras tou,,s in Alge, a, IN one
Which he Was rndeIx swakene at aaqean
Ice "Iilcll ne mds va, "us c :. ,~uak which 20
not better the digestion Ga n 20 Eren Il
lion, on which, in company ,ing hefoce
officers" he had supped the eve dds orO}
An experiment III diet" lie a.ss, Tn al
likely to he repeated" In ad1lrofl-szsiaI
this. he has made two iourD - IN hussh
several in Sweden and Norway paid repeat
ed visits 10 Spain, Portugal, 4r1 lra'y, maod
voyages TO the Canary Islam T. :"esSefn Dal
malta and other places, entiDs WITH sec
oad voyage 10 Iceland.
Whether alone or in company. ne na'
never been idle on his JOURNEYS. No victim
70 sea-sickness. ne has spent his time on tnd
Atlantic either in breathing the fresn al
and gazing with wonder and intelligence OF
the might, deep, or in writing sclentinc ar
ticles for reviews and magazines. "nel
on land many whimsical din trences %
scene and subject arose out of this practice
- There was" he says, some pertnency
in writing on the Physical History OF Maj
when WITHIN two hundrtd miles OF Moun
Ararat. and on HumbOldt's Cosmos at TN
foot of the Peak OF Teneriffe. But the Id
congruity became greater IN penning par
of an article on Modern Chemistry unoe1
the shade of fig trees at the Wells OF Moses
on the Red Sea paragraphs OF another OF
Meteors and Aerolites in an Arab tent lI
Algeria am portions of third on the nia
and character OF Julius Caesar. when travei
ing on the Illinois prairies.
He was exposed 10 professional demands
or the part of Ali Pasha. Valy Pasha, MI
son. and their Turkish and Albanian suoer
dinates. involving an absurd mOckery o
practice. TO which he tells us the term lu
dcrous' was the lightest that could be apv
piled. 1t was at this early period OF his ca
reer that Sir Henry Holland made that no
bic answer u Ali Pasha. in whose hands
must be remembered that his life was Vhef
he uttered it. An artful conversation OF
poiSonS, he tells us, ended by the Pasha
asking MIN whether he knew OF any sucf
poison which, put on the mouth-piece OF
.nipe. or given IN coffee, might slowly anq
silently Kill. leaving no note behind. Ing
short and prompt answer he gave, was, ina
as phySca he had studied how TO savd
life no. to destroy il.