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Materia Medica (1857), and Professor of Medicine, in succession to 

 Dr. George Budd (1863). In 1886 he resigned this post, and was 

 elected by the Council, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine, and 

 Consulting Physician to the Hospital. Shortly after this he became 

 a Member of the Council of King's College, in which position he con- 

 tinued to serve his alma mater until his death. 



In 1883, Dr. Johnson was appointed by the Prince of Wales Con- 

 sulting Physician to the Royal College of Music ; in 1885 he received 

 the honour of being elected a member of the Atheneeum Club, on the 

 ground of his eminence in science; in 1888 his past and present 

 students and friends presented him with his portrait, painted by the 

 late Mr. Frank Holl, R.A. This picture was publicly presented to 

 him in the large theatre of King's College amid a crowd of his 

 former colleagues and friends by Sir Joseph Lister. The scene will 

 long be remembered by all those who heard Sir Joseph Lister's 

 kindly words, and Dr. Johnson's emotional reply. In 1889 he was 

 made Physician Extraordinary to the Queen, and in 1892 he received 

 the honour of knighthood. 



The following list comprises his principal contributions to litera- 

 ture : " On. Diseases of the Kidney, their Pathology, Diagnosis, and 

 Treatment " (1852) ; " Lectures on Bright's Disease " (1873) ; " Epi- 

 demic Diarrhoea and Cholera " (1855) ; " Notes on Cholera " 

 (1856); "The Laryngoscope" (1864); "A Defence of Harvey as 

 the Discoverer of the Circulation of the Blood" (1884) ; this was a 

 reply to certain criticisms evoked by his Harveian oration of 1882. 

 In 1887 he published a collection of medical essays and lectures in 

 which many of his former ideas were stated with new force. Sir 

 George Johnson's scientific life was by no means a peaceful one, and 

 led to much controversy ; he continued to take part in discussions 

 arising from his work until the very last. In 1894, in a series of 

 letters to the 'Lancet,' he maintained, in opposition to Dr. Pavy, 

 that normal urine contains no sugar, but that the principal reducing 

 substance present is creatinine, a material which he and his son 

 (Mr. G. S. Johnson) very thoroughly investigated. In 1889 he 

 published an essay on "Asphyxia," in which he defended his well- 

 known views against those of his opponents. As late as 1895, a 

 'History of the Cholera Controversy,' in which Sir George played 

 so prominent a part, appeared from his pen ; and in the present year 

 a similar book on ' The Pathology of the Contracted Granular 

 Kidney ' completed his long series of publications. 



He married, in 1850, Charlotte Elizabeth, youngest daughter of 

 the late Lieutenant White, of Addington. He was left a widower 

 with five children ten years later. 



The vigour of Sir George Johnson's mind remained unimpaired to 

 the last, but his bodily health was feeble. He suffered from paralysis 



