On the 18th of May, . . . Dr. Hope's mortal remains were deposited in the cemetery at Highgate. The details of the foregoing Memoir copiously illustrate the general features of Dr. Hope's character. Thinking, however, that a sketch drawn by a professional friend, who had been associated with him in habits of the closest intimacy, and relating to the period of his studies in Edinburgh, might not be devoid of interest, we have printed in the Appendix a Letter from Dr. Julius, of Richmond, to Mrs. Hope. In June 1832, Dr. Hope was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. On the 5th of August, 1839, he was made a corresponding Member of "La Sociedad Medica de Emulacion de Guadalajara.” On the 2nd April, 1839, he was made a corresponding Member of the "Kaiserliche Königliche Gesellschaft der Erzte in Wien." Diplomas were also sent him from several French societies, but as these were not gratuitous honours, like the preceding, he never attached any weight to them, and none of the diplomas, except that of "La Société Statistique," can be found among his papers. The Medical and Physical Society of Bombay passed a vote that their transactions should be regularly sent to Dr. Chambers and Dr. Hope, and as the list of their members includes none but those who belong to the East India Company's service, this vote was the greatest honour that they could confer. Dr. Hope was also an Extraordinary Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, of which he had formerly been President. It was not till July 1840 that he was elected Fellow of the London College of Physicians, and this diploma bears a later date than any of his others. He felt much disposed to decline an honour which he did not consider as such when given so tardily. On second thoughts he accepted it; saying, that it was not worth refusing, and he did not wish to make enemies of a body of men which comprised some of his kindest personal friends. At the commencement of the year 1841, he was appointed to deliver the Gulstonian Lectures at the College of Physicians in the following May; but foreseeing what would be the state of his health, he declined the honour. The only other society to which Dr. Hope ever belonged was a small private one, called the Harveian, of which he had been one of the Presidents, but which he quitted many years before his death. The Works published by Dr. Hope, during his life, were: 1. Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis de Aortæ Aneu rismate. Edinburgi, 8vo., 1825. 2. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels. London, 8vo. The first edition of this work appeared in 1831; and the third, in 1839. 3. Principles and Illustrations of Morbid Anatomy. London, 8vo. This came out in parts, and was completed in 1834. 4. The following articles in the Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine: Aorta, Aneurism of. Arteritis. Dilatation of the Heart. Heart, Diseases of the. Heart, Fatty and Greasy Degeneration of the. Palpitation. Pericarditis and Carditis. Valves of the Heart, Diseases of. 5. The article Inflammation of the Brain, in the Library of Medicine. 6. The following papers in the Medical Gazette: On the Diagnosis of Aneurisms of the Aorta, by General and Stethoscopic Signs. August 22nd and 29th, September 5th and 12th, 1829. Strictures on an Essay by Dr. Corrigan, on the Motion and Sounds of the Heart. July 31st and August 31st., 1830. Experimental and Clinical Researches on the Physiology of the Heart's action. September 18th, 1830. Refutation of the Various Objections to Dr. Hope's Theory of the Action of the Heart. On the Connexion of Apoplexy and Palsy ary 28th, 1835. (Read before the College of Physicians.) A Reply to Drs. Graves and Stokes' Remarks on Dr. Hope, in Reference to Auscultation. October 1838. On the Diagnosis of Diseased Valves. March 16th, 1839. The following papers have been published posthumously: 1. Remarks on Chronic Pleurisy. Printed, extra limites, in the sixty-ninth number of the MedicoChirurgical Review. This was written by Dr. Hope after he retired from practice, and finished only four days before his death. 2. Remarks on the Pulse in Diseases of the Heart. Medical Gazette of May 20th and 27th, 1842. 3. Remarks on Classical Education. (Written after he retired from practice, and appended to the present Memoir.) REMARKS ON CLASSICAL EDUCATION. BY JAMES HOPE, M.D., F.R.S. IT has long been known by metaphysicians, and has been equally noticed by a class of philosophers who certainly have the merit of very close and accurate observation (I allude to the phrenologists), that the faculties of man are developed, not simultaneously, but in succession; and it has been agreed that this successive development is the mode best calculated to bring the intellect of man to its highest state of cultivation. The order of development is regulated according to the wants of the several periods of life. Thus, in the earliest period, it was requisite that the infant should, as speedily as possible, become acquainted with language, and the external phenomena of nature. Accordingly, the faculties of observation, memory, and attention, to which, perhaps, curiosity may be added, are developed in the highest degree. |