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and no great discovery claims his name, yet his influence on the medical 

 profession and on medical science was great. He had assumed the voca- 

 tion of a teacher at a very early age, and in every appointment which 

 he held he was unwearied in the lecture-theatre. His enthusiasm 

 in his subject and his flow of appropriate language gave to his lectures 

 & charm which always secured him a crowded and attentive audience. 

 His gift seemed to lie rather in oral instruction than in written works, 

 and it is precisely this kind of power which it is the most difficult to 

 estimate. He was, moreover, a most fluent speaker, whether in 

 lecture or conversation ; but he was a fastidious writer, and did not 

 like to permit any hasty composition to go forth under his name. The 

 leisure for quiet composition was never his. Thus it has come about 

 that neither our own Society's " Transactions," nor those of the medical 

 .associations with which he was connected, can boast of many papers 

 by him. The medical journals of the day occasionally secured a 

 lecture by the aid of a reporter, but only very seldom did anything 

 appear which was actually written out by himself. 



The subjects with which the name of Sir Andrew Clark are chiefly 

 associated are " Fibroid Phthisis," " Renal Inadequacy," and " Catheter 

 Fever " ; but the range of his interest was unbounded. To the first 

 volume of the " London Hospital Reports," he contributed, under the 

 characteristic title of " Gleanings from the Field of Observation," a 

 series of notes on very varied clinical topics. 



At the time of his death, Sir Andrew was at the zenith of his fame, 

 and was acknowledged by all as the leading physician of the 

 Metropolis. He had throughout his career been very liberal, not 

 only in gifts of money, but in the bestowal of his time without 

 recompense. 



Sir Andrew's portrait was painted by Mr. Frank Holl and presented 

 to him as a gift from a large circle of friends. It is now in the 

 National Portrait Gallery. 



The new pathological theatre at the London Hospital has been 

 inscribed to Sir Andrew Clark's memory, and it was in part built by a 

 special fund collected in order to provide some fitting memorial 

 of him. 



It is a pleasant fact to be kept in memory by his friends that his 

 last consultation, that during which his apoplectic seizure occurred, 

 was a gratuitous one. He was engaged with a lady in discussing a 

 work of charity when the call to cease from all work came to him. 



J. H. 



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