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and neglected nothing for their benefit, and he was a faultless operator. 

 As a clinical teacher he was admirable. He was not, and did not aim at 

 being, a speaker of commanding eloquence ; nevertheless he was a most 

 excellent and ready lecturer and speaker. His manner was always 

 quiet and gentlemanly; his language was always simple and well 

 chosen ; and his matter was always appropriate to the occasion. He was 

 consequently not only a clear and attractive lecturer, but he was a clear 

 and attractive speaker on all festive and other occasions. Although 

 he was a scientific surgeon and anatomist he did not do much original 

 scientific work. He wrote many papers on points in anatomy and. 

 surgery that interested him ; he lectured (as before stated) at the 

 Royal College of Surgeons. He delivered three introductory addresses 

 at St. Thomas's Hospital. While president he delivered the Hunteriaii 

 Oration at the College of Surgeons, an address which was philosophical 

 and full of thought. He contributed a paper on ' The Mechanism of 

 Respiration ' to the ' Proceedings of the Royal Society ' (vol. 20, 

 1872). In 1836 he published a work on the anatomy and physiology of 

 the nervous system ; in 1847 and 1853 he translated two volumes of 

 Dupuytren's. ' Le9ons Orales ' for the Sydenham Society ; he published 

 ' Lectures on Surgical Diagnosis of Visceral Lesions ' in 1870 ; and 

 ' Outlines of Surgery,' of which a second edition appeared in 1872 ; 

 Paley's ' Natural Theology,' edited for the S.P.C.K. in 1875 ; a little 

 manual of physiology for the same society in 1883 ; several articles 

 on anatomy and physiology in the ' Encyclopaedia Metropolitana ' 

 about 1840 ; several papers in the ' Medico- Chirurgical Transactions ; ' 

 critical articles in the ' British and Foreign Quai-terly,' and he made 

 a few contributions of cases to the medical papers. Lastly, he pub- 

 lished a collection of 'Miscellaneous Essays,' which had already 

 appeared in various periodicals, &c. 



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