Disorders to which it is obnoxious, and of the Method of rectifying them. It was in this work that those censures upon Dr. Freind's practice, with regard to the small-pox, were contained, which led to the controversy noticed in the sketch of the latter gentleman...

Woodward was speculative and opiniative in the extreme, and this last performance may be taken as a criterion of his peculiarities. In it he advanced a notion that the bile and its salts reabsorbed into the blood, were the true causes of animal life, and that their fermentations in the stomach bred all diseases. From this he deduced two universal remedies-emetics to dislodge the morbid bile, and oily medicines to correct it. Another of his notions was, that life is inherent not in the nerves, but in the blood, an hypothesis in favour of which he laboured through many experiments.

Dr. Woodward died of a decline in his apartments at Gresham College, in the 63rd year of his age. Though rather unhappy in his medical opinions, he enjoyed a considerable reputation as a naturalist. His cabinet of fossils was so highly valued, that a catalogue of its contents was published in two volumes, 8vo. after his death. This collection he bequeathed to the University of Cambridge, with all his personal property, for the purpose of establishing a lectureship upon any subject which could be derived from his own works. Whatever degree of generosity there was in this legacy, it was certainly balanced by the vanity of the conditions upon which it was granted.