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and was soon after elected Physician to the Northern Dispensary, and 

 for fourteen years zealously discharged the duties of that office. In 

 1847 he was appointed Physician to the Hospital for Consumption, 

 and much of his subsequent labour was specially directed to the 

 investigation and treatment of that disease. 



Dr. Thompson's chief writings are the following: 'Annals of 

 Influenza/ published by the Sydenham Society, 1851 ; * Lectures 

 on Diseases of the Chest,' 1854, and ' Lettsomian Lectures on Con- 

 sumption,' 1 855 ; besides the chapters on " Hysteria," " Neuralgia " 

 and " Chorea " in the ' Library of Medicine,' edited by Dr. Tweedie, 

 1840. He also contributed various papers on professional sub- 

 jects to the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, and to different medical 

 journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1846, 

 and is the author of two papers on the changes produced in the 

 blood by the administration of oils, printed in the ' Proceedings ' in 

 1854 and 1858. 



Dr. Thompson was held in high esteem by his professional 

 brethren, and was greatly beloved by his patients. He was gentle 

 and modest in nature, but of inflexible moral integrity ; and through- 

 out his useful life he was actuated by a disinterested desire for the 

 advancement of medical knowledge and the promotion of the right 

 interests of his profession. He was a man of unaffected piety, which 

 influenced him through life, and sustained him in resigned and 

 cheerful submission under the afflicting malady which preceded his 

 death. This consisted in a species of atrophy, which invaded his 

 frame, and, without affecting his mind, eventually deprived him of all 

 muscular power. He died on the 1 1th of August, 1860, from the 

 immediate effect of bronchitis, which speedily prevailed over his well- 

 nigh exhausted strength. 



Dr. ROBERT BENTLEY TODD was born at Dublin on the 9th of 

 April, 1809. His father, Charles Hawkes Todd, Professor of Ana- 

 tomy and Surgery in the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, after 

 attaining the greatest eminence and success in his profession, was cut 

 off at the early age of 46, leaving sixteen children. Of this large 

 family Dr. Todd was the second son ; he was educated at Trinity 

 College, Dublin, where he graduated in Arts and in Medicine, and 

 afterwards passed a year in Paris in prosecution of his medical 



