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JOURNAL 



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Vol. ii. DECEMBER 1894. No. 5. 



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DR. RAKE. 



Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 



— Young, Night Thoughts. 

 R. Rake was the soirof the late Mr. Thomas Beaven Rake, 

 Surgeon of Fordingbridge, Hampshire. He was born on 

 April 28th, 1858, and in 1872 he went to Oliver's Mount School, 

 Scarborough, and at once distinguished himself in his school 

 career never returning home for his holidays without prizes. In 

 1876 In- matriculated at London University and after a year at 

 home, as an apprentice to his father, he went to Guy's Hospital 

 as a preliminary scientific student in October 1877. There he 

 soon gave evidences of traits which were pre-eminently his 

 characteristics throughout his career — an extraordinary capability 

 for perseverance and thoroughness, and at the same time the 

 power of attracting the good-will and respect of his tutors and 

 fellow students. He gained a prize given by the Physical 

 by for an essay on the Localisation of the Functions of the 

 1. and amongst other triumphs took the Joseph Horace 

 Prize, 1877, and the Gurney Horace Prize, 1879. He passed the 



M.B. with honours, and the M.B. degree with first • 

 honours in medicine, and honours in obstetric and foi 



icine. In 1879 he took the M.P.C.s., and the L.R.C.P., the 

 follow in-- yew. in ;• . M.iv London with marks 



qualifying for the gold medal. He was house surgeon al Guy's 

 in L882, and ' m in L883, and was for some 



itrical physician. When he finally left Gxrj 

 spent twelve months on the Continent visiting the most 



ds, and passing through courses of clinic-; under tie 

 talented medical men of Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. On 



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