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Show 10 PERSONAL ADVENTURES tion if it would have made any difference to him; for such was his uncontrollable love of mischief and fun, that he would sooner enjoy a little merriment at his own expence than be reduced to a state of inaction for five minutes together. In person be \Vas short, roundfeatured, and slightly pitted with the smallpox; with an eye that irradiated, by its droll and ever restless expression, an otherwise plain and insignificant face. In short, he was a perfect epitome of. Irish virtues and Irish frailties ; with a heart that bore rather too large a proportion to the brain ; and a vein of humour that rendered him the life and soul of every circle into which he happened to be thrown. t' Then we bad two disciples of Galen: and, as Nature delights in contrasts, it would be difficult to find two beings more dissimilar in character or appearance. Dr. Freund \Vas a regularly educated and licensed experimenter on the human frame; while Dr. JudsonHank Judson, as he was familiarly calledowed the whole of his professional reputation IN CALIFORNIA. 11 to a certain talent which he possessed for practising on the credulity of the ignorant, having been engaged in the fabrication of some of those patent panaceas which leave little or nothing to be discovered in the shape of remedial agents. The German physician was a tall, muscular n1an, with a most forbidding countenance, to which a pair of enormous moustaches imparted additional fierceness. And yet tbe husk belied the kernel, for nq man could be 1nilder or more inoffensive, except when he came in collision with Judson, to whom he seemed to have a sort of natural as well as professional antipathy. Owing to the effects of a long incarceration, to which he had been subjected for sotne political offence in his own country, he was liable to nervous attacks of a most distressing nature, under the influence of which his powerful frame became convulsed to such a degree, that the exhaustion which succeeded left him as helpless as an infant. Judson was a thin, wiry little Yankee, with a face like a hatchet, to which the body |