xiv. QUATERCENTENARY STUDIES IN PATHOLOGY 



go in where a man's mind dwells, and live with him again the 

 hopes, the disappointments, the despairs, the agonies that went 

 to the creation of the vast fabric of Pathology as we now know 

 it ; but that is what every student of Professor Hamilton's would 

 wish to do. The personal force that created his department 

 created also the mind to work in it. This little group of studies 

 is but a selection to mark the end of twenty-five years of 

 working, teaching, stimulating, investigating, developing. 

 There are worlds yet to conquer ; but Professor Hamilton goes 

 always forward. As twenty-five years ago, so now, he fights in 

 the front rank ; but he fights with the growing energies of all 

 those years to aid him, with hundreds of old pupils living in his 

 memory, with ever new generations of workers waiting for his 

 voice, with opportunity, sympathy, a whole history of success. 



Do you know or do you remember what Professor Hamilton 

 was as a Teacher ? I see him now come in — absorbed, active, 

 energetic. He has undone his portfolio. He has opened his 

 manuscript. He has glanced round to see that all his specimens 

 are in their places. He looks up ; he looks down ; he puts 

 his fingers into his vest pockets. He looks to the window 

 on the right ; he begins his morning parade. Then it is a 

 drum-tap to attention. His fine baritone — trenchant, decisive, 

 agreeable — gives the topic of the day. It was his method to 

 select a definite idea, or part of an idea, to make it very precise 

 in a condensed statement, to dictate this to his class until 

 we all had it. Then he would analyze, illustrate, explain. 

 He would show us this diagram, that specimen, this section, 

 that section, until, when the hour was done, we had seen and 

 understood and went away with a vivid impression vibrating 

 in our memory. At the end, we crowded up to verify his 

 points. He kept us close to actual specimens. We handled 

 them, and he taught us how. We saw for ourselves. I have 

 had twenty-six Professors, and among them many superb 



