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in our time have advocated the stimulating and supporting, as 

 opposed to the antiphlogistic and depleting mode of treatment. 

 The present is not a fitting occasion for criticising opinion on 

 questions in practical medicine; but this much we may be per- 

 mitted to say, that even should the views maintained by Dr. Todd 

 not ultimately prevail, a balance of good can scarcely fail to accrue 

 from his rational exposition and discussion of the doctrine in his 

 lectures and writings, and especially from his fearlessly submitting 

 the results of its practical application to open scrutiny in a clinical 

 hospital. 



Dr. Todd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838, and 

 in 1838 and 1839 he served on the Council. 



For some years before his death it was evident to Dr. Todd's 

 medical friends that he was labouring under some serious internal 

 disorder, but he continued actively to discharge his professional 

 duties ; at length, however, the crisis arrived, and he was cut off on 

 the 30th of January, 1860, by repeated attacks of hsematemesis, 

 which was afterwards ascertained to have been caused by disease of 

 the liver. He has left a widow and four children. 



Besides the works of which the titles have been already mentioned, 

 and single clinical lectures reported from time to time in the Medical 

 Journals, Dr. Todd is the author of the following : 



' Clinical Lectures on Paralysis, Disease of the Brain and other 

 affections of the Nervous System,' 1854. 



* Clinical Lectures on certain Diseases of the Urinary Organs, and 

 on Dropsies/ 1857. 



'Clinical Lectures on certain Acute Diseases, 5 1860. 



'On Gout, Rheumatic Fever, and Chronic Rheumatism of the 

 Joints,' 1843. 



" On the Contractility or Irritability of the Muscles of Paralysed 

 Limbs," &c., Medico-Chirurgical Transactions for 1847, vol. xxx. 



"Additional Experiments on the Excitability of Paralysed and 

 Healthy Limbs by the Galvanic Current," Ibid. 1853, vol. xxxvi. 



Twenty-eight articles on Anatomy, Physiology and Morbid 

 Anatomy, in the Cyclopaedia. Those on the Nervous System were 

 republished under the following title : 



"The Anatomy of the Brain, Spinal Cord, and Ganglions," 1845. 



