®5(y Biographical Memoir of the late Dr Turner. 



much that he resolved to spend the entire summer of 1835 in a 

 continental excursion. His health, though thus greatly improv- 

 ed, was far from being altogether reinstated ; and the confine- 

 ment and labours of the succeeding college session undermined it 

 still more. Another summer of complete relaxation in the coun- 

 try brought a deceitful tranquillity, but no thorough restora- 

 tion ; and his friends looked with alarm to the necessity of his 

 again resuming his professional toils. His complaints were 

 vaguely mai-ked, consisting chiefly of irritability of the stomach, 

 with a sense of fuhiess and oppression in the head ; which were 

 successively conceived by himself and various medical friends to 

 arise from irritation in the stomach, inflammation in the duo- 

 denum, diseased liver, an affection of the brain, and obstruction 

 in the lacteal system. He appears, however, to have been scarcely 

 at any time apprehensive about the issue ; for while he was vi- 

 sibly to his friends declining slowly but steadily, he constantly 

 flattered himself with fresh prospects of amendment. So late as 

 towards the close of January, in the last letter I received from 

 him, he spoke cheerfully of his returning health, and of his in- 

 tention to take two hours a-day from the relaxation he had en- 

 joyed throughout the early part of the winter. A few days af- 

 terwards, I received the intelligence that he had been seized with 

 the epidemic influenza, then prevailing in London ; and nof- 

 withstanding the most assiduous and anxious care on the part 

 of his medical colleagues, his enfeebled frame sunk under this 

 new invader. He expired on the 12th of February, in the forty- 

 first year of his age. 



The cause of his long illness was discovered after death to 

 have been chronic inflammation of the mucous coat of the sto- 

 mach and duodenum, proceeding to ulceration ; and the imme- 

 diate cause of death was serous eff"usion, and extensive hepati- 

 zation in both lungs. 



His body was interred in the new cemetery at Kelsall Green, 

 about five miles from London ; and the funeral was attended by 

 a large assemblage of friends, and followed by upwards of SOO 

 students of the college, who requested permission to pay this 

 tribute of respect to his memory. Seldom, indeed, has a teacher 

 received such sincere and unaffected proofs of attachment from 

 his pupils. Many of them continued to wear mourning after- 



