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In 1768, through the influence of Dr. Tissot, of Lausanne, he was given the appointment of Physician to the King of England at the Court of Hanover. During the last years of his life he took a great interest in political events, recognizing with remarkable foresight the approach of an immense revolution. So strong was his belief that current events pointed to the approach of such a catastrophe, and so depressing were the effects of this belief upon his naturally hypochondriac type of mind, that the last years of his life were thereby rendered most painful. He died on October 7, 1795, not long after the full effects of the Reign of Terror had developed in France.

Tissot, who had known Zimmermann well for more than forty years, has written a most interesting notice of his life and has placed a just estimate upon the value of his writings. (Dezeimeris.) Sprengel, the author of a well-known and highly esteemed history of medicine, speaks in the following terms of Zimmermann’s treatise “On Experience in the Practice of Medicine”:—