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handsome and valuable testimonial in silver plate was 

 presented to him from his friends and pupils. 



Mr. Jordan had further claims upon public regard as a 

 large benefactor to suffering humanity by professional un- 

 paid services. In his private practice, extending over more 

 than fifty years, Mr. Jordan ever showed a special devotion 

 to the relief of the sickness and suffering of the poor. His 

 great professional skill, often unpaid, and even supplemented 

 by a liberal purse, and that genuine kindness which ever 

 doubles the value of a gift, won for him the blessings of 

 thousands. Nor was his philanthropy less conspicuous in 

 official positions. About 1819 he aided largely in founding 

 the Lock Hospital, for unfortunate women, of which he was 

 the surgeon or consulting surgeon till he finally retired 

 from practice. He was always a steady benefactor to the 

 institution, in wise counsel and liberal donations. In 1835 

 he was appointed an honorary medical officer of the Royal 

 Infirmary, and long filled the honourable position of its 

 senior surgeon with the highest credit to himself and with 

 great benefit to the institution and the community at large. 

 Within its walls he often performed some of the greater as 

 well as the more dehcate operations of surgery ; his remark- 

 able nerve and steadiness and precision of hand admirably 

 qualifying him for these duties. He invented a most beau- 

 tiful little lamp to obtain a magnified view of the membrane 

 tympani and other organs, for which the Society of Arts 

 awarded their silver medal. His clinical lectures in the 

 hospital wards always attracted a large and attentive fol- 

 lowing of the pupils and students, and a few years ago a very 

 numerously signed testimonial was presented to him by the 

 pupils of the Royal Infirmary for these lectures. He was a 

 most eloquent and interesting lecturer, and his great and 

 long experience enabled him to illustrate his lectures with 

 cases bearing upon the subject, which rivetted the attention 

 and increased the knowledge of his hearers. 



