The gold-headed cane . ection. Then he became very corpu-lent, and his faculties were visibly his kindness of heart never deserted shall never forget a piece of insolence onthe part of one of his servants, who doubtlesspresumed on his masters known good natureand forgiving disposition. Dr. Watson wassitting with Mead in his library, when thelatter wishing to read something, looked aboutfor his spectacles, for his eyesight had becomevery bad; and not readily finding them, askedhis servant for them: upon which the man gavethem to him with great rudeness, saying atthe time, You
The gold-headed cane . ection. Then he became very corpu-lent, and his faculties were visibly his kindness of heart never deserted shall never forget a piece of insolence onthe part of one of his servants, who doubtlesspresumed on his masters known good natureand forgiving disposition. Dr. Watson wassitting with Mead in his library, when thelatter wishing to read something, looked aboutfor his spectacles, for his eyesight had becomevery bad; and not readily finding them, askedhis servant for them: upon which the man gavethem to him with great rudeness, saying atthe time, You are always losing your I longed to have knocked the fellowdown for his brutality! 148 MEAD. Dr. Mead died on the 16th of February,1754, in his eighty-first year, and was buriedin the Temple Church. After his death, it was said of him, that ofall physicians who had ever flourished, hegained the most, spent the most, and enjoyedthe highest fame during his lifetime, not onlyin his own but in foreign ASKEW. CHAPTER III. Dr. Askew had been in his youth a greattraveller; at least he was so considered inthose days, for he had been absent from Eng-land three years, and had, during that time,visited Hungary, and resided at Athens andConstantinople. To the latter place he hadaccompanied Sir James Porter, then ambassa-dor to the Porte. In consequence of theseperegrinations, he was regarded on his returnto his native country as no ordinary person, 150 ASKEW. but one who had enjoyed most unusual ad-vantages, and very rare opportunities of ac-quiring knowledge. This will perhaps hardlybe credited at the present moment, when it isscarcely possible to turn the comer of a streetwithout meeting an Englishman recently ar-rived, either from the borders of the DeadSea, the cataracts of the Nile, or the ruins ofPalmyra. Interviews with the Beys andPashas of the empire of Mahomet have now-a-days succeeded to the usual presentations atthe courts of the Continent; and the camel,
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