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entered the Navy, and was engaged at Haslar Hospital for seven 

 years, chiefly in pathological work. At this period of life he was in 

 delicate health, was considered phthisical, and was sent, on leave of 

 absence, to Madeira. At Haslar he married his first wife, whom he 

 lost a few years later. Having been engaged chiefly in pathological 

 and museum work at Haslar he was induced, at the age of 28, to 

 transfer his energies to the Medical School of the London Hospital, 

 and in the following year was elected Assistant Physician to the 

 hospital itself. 



He now commenced practice in London. It was not until ten years 

 later that his great success came. His reputation and his practice had 

 been slowly but steadily increasing, when, at the age of 41, he suc- 

 ceeded to the post of full Physician to the hospital. This at once 

 enlarged his sphere as a teacher. In the same year the last great 

 *epidemic of cholera in London occurred, and the wards of the hospital 

 were crowded with patients. His zeal and assiduity in connection with 

 this outbreak and his unsparing devotion to his patients secured him 

 the good opinion and friendship of Mrs. Gladstone, and, subsequently, 

 of her illustrious husband. Through their influence, backed by his 

 own sterling merits, his professional connection was soon very widely 

 extended. At the age of 44 or 45 he removed to a commanding 

 residence in Cavendish Square. Here he lived the whole of the 

 remaining twenty-three years of his life, immersed in occupations 

 which he enjoyed, but which were of the most laborious and exacting 

 kind. He had married for the second time at the age of 33, and he 

 left a son and daughter by his first wife, and one son and three 

 daughters by his second. 



Sir Andrew Clark was a man of most attractive personality who 

 endeared himself to all who knew him. His love of work, his zeal in 

 investigation, and his devotion as a teacher were unbounded. 

 Although never really in strong health, and obliged to live strictly by 

 rule, he could endure without obvious fatigue an amount of work 

 which would have been impossible to most men. It was a matter of 

 unceasing regret to him that the absorption of his time in private and 

 hospital practice prevented him from cultivating, as he would have 

 liked, the more strictly scientific aspects of his profession. His friends 

 were accustomed to hear frequent expressions of his determination to 

 relinquish practice and devote himself to investigation ; the time, 

 however, never came. So high was his estimate of the functions of 

 a teacher, that long after his practice had become such as to demand 

 all his time, he was most punctual in his attendance at the London 

 Hospital, and he retained his post of physician as long as the rules of 

 the Institution allowed him to do so. 



Although Sir Andrew was not the author of any epoch-making book, 



