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Eccentric Physician.—­When Bailly, (physician to Henry IV. of France,) perceived he was about to die, he called his servants to him singly, and gave to each of them a portion, first of his money, then of his plate and furniture, bidding them, as soon as they had taken what he had given them, to leave the house, and see him no more.  When the physicians came to visit him, they told him they had found his door open, the servants and the furniture removed and gone, nothing in fact remaining, but the bed on which he lay.  Then the doctor, taking leave of his physicians, said, “Since my baggage is packed up and gone, it is time that I should also go.”  He died the same day, November 5th, 1605.

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