PROFESSOR HAMILTON XV. 



teachers ; where so many were great, It is difficult to characterise, 

 for each had his individual way, each his strength ; but 

 Hamilton was among the most vivid, the most effective, the 

 most stimulating. 



And in his Practical Classes it was not different. Every 

 leading point of his lectures and many more, he made real to 

 us by naked-eye specimen, microscopic section, bacteriological 

 culture. The pictures there seen for the first time are with 

 me still — clear, defined, easily placed in the memory. Is there 

 a better proof of good teaching ? 



And in the Mortuary, the Teacher still predominated. He 

 made the post-mortem room a new laboratory for the school. 

 I knew the post-mortem room before Hamilton. How little 

 we learned ! I knew it after Hamilton came. How little 

 we missed ! He did not spare us ; neither did he spare himself. 

 He drummed knowledge into us ; he commanded us not only to 

 look, but to see ; he taught us method by making us act ; 

 he taught us accuracy by making us weigh, measure and record ; 

 he made us feel that science looks on nothing as unclean or 

 common. 



I remember, too, when the Text-book of Pathology was 

 being forged. Every hour snatched from a busy day went to 

 the searching of monographs, the verifying of references, the 

 checking of theories. I am not a specialist in Pathology, and 

 cannot tell how the book compares with the other great text- 

 books ; but I should be surprised if it does not equal the best 

 in lucidity and wealth of factual basis. 



Of Professor Hamilton's work on the brain, his particular 

 method of sectioning, his theory of the corpus callosum, and 

 how many more points, I need say nothing. They were the 

 furniture of our minds as students, and remain so. In the 

 meanwhile he has worked along other lines. His splendid 

 report, just issued, on Louping-ill and Braxy is one of the best 



