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visiting physician to the York Retreat and the York Dispensary ; 

 became Lecturer on Psychology at the York School of Medicine ; 

 was prevented by an attack of haemorrhage from converting the 

 old family house in York into a private asylum for ladies ; recov- 

 ered in a year, and settled in Falmouth for fifteen years. Here he 

 took active interest in the library, schools, workingmen's clubs, 

 etc., and did much literary work. He settled for practice in Lon- 

 don in 1879, and eventually became a governor of Bethlem Hos- 

 pital. He had great power of continued intellectual work, and a 

 corresponding indifference to mere physical comforts ; and pos- 

 sessed an extraordinary memory for details. His work in the 

 study of lunacy and advocacy of the humane treatment for the 

 insane was known all over the world. He visited most of the asy- 

 lums in Europe and America, never, says the Lancet, "losing a 

 chance of picking up the threads which connected the present 

 with the past. He knew the city of the simple (Gheel) in Belgium 

 and the secluded valley in Ireland where priest healing had held 

 sway. He was one of the originators of the After-care Associa- 

 tion for patients who, having left asylums, were not fit for full 

 work. His holidays were combinations of the study of asylums 

 with (insufficient) complete relaxation." He gave much thought 

 and attention to the study of moral insanity. His earliest estab- 

 lished literary work was prepared in collaboration with Dr. Charles 

 Bucknill, and is known as " Bucknili and Tuke on Insanity." He 

 set great value on his book on the Influence of Mind on the Body, 

 which has now been " left behind." He was for eighteen years 

 editor of the Journal of Medical Science ; prepared an Index 

 Medicus ; and undertook and carried out the Dictionary of Psy- 

 chological Medicine. 



A body of the English engaged in the Chitral Expedition suffered se- 

 verely at the river Panjkora, in consequence of the enemy's launching 

 heavy logs of wood down stream, which destroyed the bridge the men 

 were constructing. One of the enemy who was captured in the subsequent 

 fight described in vivid language how their attempt at a night surprise was 

 frustrated by the magnesium light of a star-shell fired from the English 

 camp. ''There were two thousand hillmen who set forth that night to 

 crawl up to the soldiers' camp. We lay for hours in the wet fields, with 

 the rain falling steadily, waiting for our chiefs to give the signal for the 

 great rush. Word came round from chief to chief to be ready, and every 

 man crouched, grasping his weapon, to run forward. But at that very 

 moment a devil's gun boomed forth, and lo ! instead of bullets and balls 

 coming out, there burst over us a mighty light, so great that we thought 

 the night had suddenly become day. And we cried aloud to Allah to abate 

 his wrath against us, and when the great light faded we all hurried away, 

 and even our mullahs had no word to say."' 



