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Transactions ' for 1851, on " The Employment of Electricity in 

 Surgery," and the Bradshaw Lecture delivered at the Royal College 

 of Surgeons in 1883, on " Nerve-stretching," and the Morton Lec- 

 ture, on " Cancer." 



Mr. Marshall took much interest in hospital construction, and 

 strongly favoured the " circular- ward " system. Whatever may be the 

 merits or demerits of that system and on this point there is much 

 discrepancy of opinion, Marshall had the satisfaction of seeing it 

 introduced, mainly through his advocacy, into several hospitals in 

 this country. 



Few members of the medical profession can show so full a 

 record of public and official work as could Professor Marshall, and 

 by none has such work been done more thoroughly and more faith- 

 fully than by him. Yet he has been allowed to pass away with 

 services such as these unrecognised and himself unrewarded by any 

 public mark of dignity or of distinction. 



J. E. E. 



Holland has produced more, perhaps, than its share of men whose 

 names are likely to be held in lasting honour by mankind, and 

 among them hardly one greater or nobler as a hero of science 

 than FRANS CORNELIS BONDERS.* In him rare gifts of nature were 

 so happily blended, and turned to such good account for the 

 advantage of his fellow men, as to make him an illustrious 

 example of how much may be accomplished for our race in those 

 quiet paths of life in which he was well content to pass his days. He 

 was, indeed, doubly fortunate, for, while he bore a conspicuous part 

 in the extension of knowledge and its beneficent applications, in fields 

 which he found already ripening for the discoveries with which his 

 fame will be ever associated, he lived long enough to see the rich 

 results of his labours universally and gratefully acknowledged by his 

 contemporaries. 



He was born the 27th May, 1818, at Tilburg, a manufacturing town 

 of North Brabant, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in a com- 

 munity almost exclusively Roman Catholic. His father was a simple 

 burgher, kindly and studious, who, though he seems to have left 

 the cares of business very much to his more practical wife, while 

 he occupied himself apart with chemistry, music, and literature, 

 was still full of active sympathy with the less studious life 

 around him. Eight daughters had been born to them, but, as 

 yet, no son, when the unexpected fulfilment of a long deferred 

 hope induced, it was thought, a congestion of the brain, under 

 which the poor father rather suddenly succumbed. The child 

 was tenderly reared by the mother and elder sisters, in narrow 

 circumstances, and was probably spoiled, for he became unruly, 

 * For a portrait see frontispiece to the present volume. 



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