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many books demands, a life which deserved some record. Dr.

Heysham practised as a physician in Carlisle for between fifty and sixty years (177d-1834); and made during that time in the famous "Carlisle Tables of Mortality" one of the earliest and most important contributions to sanitary science. The account of his labours in this department is interesting ; so also are some notices of social life to which incidentally occur. What constitutions these worthies had ! Dr.

Heysham and his friends would dispose of three bottles of port apiece at a sitting, of a fourth on extraordinary occasions, and then wind up with "a hearty draught" of rum punch. One is surprised to learn that, though a successful practitioner, he never earned more than £400 a year.