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agitans, was subject to insomnia, and was slightly deaf. These 

 infirmities rendered his attendance at public meetings somewhat 

 irregular, but when questions of urgency arose he was always at his 

 post at the Senate of the London University, the Council of King's 

 College, and the meetings of the College of Physicians. During the 

 last three or four years, however, his health had improved, and he 

 was able during his summer holidays to resume his shooting in 

 Scotland, a sport of which he was extremely fond. Only last 

 summer he related with pride how he had brought down a stag at 

 the distance of so many yards. His house in Saville Bow contained 

 many trophies of the chase. His sudden end on Wednesday, June 3, 

 1896, therefore came as a surprise and shock to all his friends. The 

 cause of death was apoplexy. The morning of Monday, June 1, he 

 was in his usual health, and he employed it in writing a paper which 

 was published in the * Lancet ' of June 13, under the appropriate title, 

 " A Last Word on Cholera." This was a brief criticism on Dr. Ken- 

 neth Macleod's article on "Cholera," in Dr. Clifford Allbutt's 

 ' System of Medicine.' In the afternoon he went out for his usual 

 drive, and it was on his return that he was seized with hemiplegia. 

 Though he regained sufficient consciousness to recognise those about 

 him, he never rallied, and died within forty -eight hours of the 

 attack. 



The funeral took place on June 8, after a preliminary service at 

 St. James's, Piccadilly, conducted by Dr. Wace, Principal of King's 

 College, and attended by a large number of his friends and admirers, 

 Sir Joseph Lister representing the Royal Society ; the remains were 

 laid to rest by the side of those of his wife at St. Mary's, Addington. 



The medical and scientific world has lost a distinguished ornament, 

 an earnest and steady worker, a deep thinker, a vigorous writer, and 

 a lovable and tender-hearted friend. 



The foregoing enumeration of the principal incidents in his life 

 shows how full it was of active service, but cannot paint the man as 

 he was to those who knew him. The readers of his works will see in 

 him the trenchant writer, and the uncompromising but always fair 

 defender of his views. Those who listened to his lectures will 

 remember the well ordered, logical, and clear exposition of his 

 thoughts ; here he never allowed his strong but contentious ideas to 

 appear in undue relief when he was teaching his students. His 

 opponents will know him as a hard hitter, but one who was always 

 ready to acknowledge his own mistakes, and who never carried his 

 words into the region of personal attack. It is, however, only those 

 who sat with him by his fireside who can properly realise the gener- 

 ous friend, the lovable disposition, the keen interest he always took 

 in questions of science, and the enthusiasm with which he followed 

 up his theories. It was especially the younger men with whom he 



