text:  What will become of London if all her apothecaries desert her at this rate? For ourselves reflecting on the accomplishments of many of these patriotic men their learning their modesty their disinterestedness we have often had a twinge of the philanthropic extorted by the loss inflicted on our native city--she may come to want a doze of julap and have nobody to mix it!--and have said to ourselves as we have looked more than one of these worthies in the face [Greek: O alein Athenai Pallados th'orismata Oion steresesth andros]! One day after dinner a little bit of gold rolled over the table to the doctor from a bluff-looking gentleman opposite--it was well aimed--"There doctor! _there's your fee_; but don't you begin again prating a parcel of stuff to my wife about her complaints--she is quite well--and if you frighten her into illness take notice you will get a different sort of fee next time!" All this half joke half earnestly must have been very agreeable to the guests