 Medicine, in truest acceptance of the word, is not the art of administering drugs, but the art of healing.He is the best physician as well as philosopher, who removes or assuages those evils to which the human frame is liable, with least violence done to Nature; and while he obviates the present inconvenience, endeavours, as far as lies in his power, to leave the vital powers unweakened, and undiminished by the remedies he applies.In 1859, he wrote a memoir on Thomas Assheton Smith, a famous fox hunter in the early 19th century.