asional use destroys the sameness of rhyme. If poets were to
introduce eccentric rhymes at pleasure, to produce variety, the shade of
Walker would I think be troubled sorely.

ALEXANDER ANDREWS.

_Passage in Boerhaave_ (Vol. vii., p. 453.).--As the passage is incorrectly
given from memory, it {603} is not easy to say where it is to be found. I
venture, however, to lay before the FOREIGN SURGEON the following, from the
_Institutiones Medicae caet. digestae_, ab Herm. Boerhaave (Vienna, 1775),
p. 382.:

"Unde tamen mors senilis per has mutationes accidit inevitabilis, et ex
ipsa sanitate sequens."

And from Ph. Ambr. Marhesz, Praelectiones in H. Boerh., _Inst. Med._
(Vienna, 1785), vol. iii. p. 44.:

"Tum vivere cessat decripitus senex, sine morbo in mortem transiens,
nisi senectutis vitium ineluctabile pro morbo habeas."

See also s. 475. Possibly the required passage may be found in Burton's
_Account of the Life, &c. of Dr. Boerhaave_ (London, 1743). Allow me,
however, to quote the following from a discourse of Joannes Oosterdijk
Schacht (Boerhaave's cotemporary), delivered by him September 12, 1729,
when he entered on the professorship at Utrecht. From this it will appear
that the words ascribed to Boerhaave may be attributed to other learned
men:

"Nemini igitur mirum videatur, si innumeris stipata malis superveniat
senectus, quam nec solam nec morbis tantum comitatam obrepere, sed
ipsam morbum esse, et olim vidit vetustas, et hodierna abunde docet
experientia."--Joann. Oosterdijk Schacht, _Oratio Inauguralis caet._
(Traj. ad Rhenum, 1729).

From the _Navorscher_.

L. D. R.

Ginnekin.

_Craton the Philosopher_ (Vol. viii., p. 441.).--

"At that time two brothers, who were extremely rich, sold their
inheritance by the advice of Crato the philosopher, and bought diamonds
of singular value, which they crushed in the Forum before all the
people, thus making an ostentatious exhibition of their contempt for
the world. St. John, happening to be passing through the Forum,
witnessed this display, and, pitying the folly of these misguided men,
kindly gave them sounder advice. Sending for Crato their master, who
had led them into error, he blamed the wasteful destruction of valuable
property, and instructed him in the true meaning of contempt for the
world according to Christ's doctrine, quoting the precept of that
teacher, his own Ma