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tical and statesmanlike views whieh were generally sustained by 

 the after history of the affairs to which they pertained. Besides the 

 Dictionary of Medicine, Dr. Quain, with a number of eminent co- 

 laborers, prepared an Elements of Anatomy, which has passed 

 through many editions, and has a high rank in the literature of the 

 profession. 



Dr. Quain received an honorary degree of M. D. from the Royal 

 University of Ireland in 1887, and was made a fellow of the Royal 

 College of Physicians of Ireland in the same year; was made a 

 Doctor of Laws of the University of Edinburgh in 1889; in the same 

 year was appointed Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty the 

 Queen; was made a Doctor of Medicine of the University of Dublin 

 in 1890; was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1871; was a 

 fellow and late president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical So- 

 ciety; a fellow of the Royal Botanical Society; a member and late 

 president of the Pathological Society of London, to the Transactions 

 of which he made several valuable contributions; was a member and 

 late president of the Harveian Society of London; and a member of 

 the senate of the University of London. On New Year's day, 1891, 

 he was made a baronet of the United Kingdom. 



His medical practice was largely in the higher circles of London 

 society, and he enjoyed the personal friendship of many of the lead- 

 ing men of his time, among whom Carlyle, John Delane, proprietor 

 of the Times, Landseer, and Robert Lowe are named. 



Sir Richard Quain had been ill for more than a year previous to 

 his death, and for the last sLx months confined to his bed. His last 

 appearance in public was at the reading of his paper on the Cause 

 of the First Sound of the Heart, before the Royal Society, in June, 

 1897, when the president made a special reference to the courage 

 he displayed. The paper had been written in bed, and he had left 

 his bed to present and defend it. 



" His life," says Nature, " had been one of ceaseless activity, good 

 health, and overflowing spirits; and when overtaken by disease he 

 appeared not to regard or understand rest, physician though he was." 

 The Lancet says: "To few men in our profession has the gift of 

 every characteristic that calls forth the affectionate esteem of their 

 brethren been so liberally vouchsafed as to Sir Richard Quain. His 

 genial presence and his brilliant power of saying epigrammatic 

 things, and saying them with the true humorous instinct of his 

 race, made him ever popular; while his wide sympathies and un- 

 varying kindness gave him in the eyes of those who had the privi- 

 lege of personal relations with him something more true and per- 

 manent than social popularity, the affection of his younger brethren 

 in the profession of medicine." 



