CHAPTER XL 



FAILURE OF HEALTH. 



THE end of September 1851 found Forbes in London 

 purchasing models at the Exhibition, which he had seen 

 with Mrs. Forbes soon after its opening in May. When 

 y in October he joined his family in their summer 

 home at Craigieburn, he complained of a bad cough. 

 November brought a new session, and though the cough 

 had by that time left him, he confessed that he entered 

 on his work with a sense of weariness never felt before. 



Of this to him eventful month his journal contains the 

 following notice : ' The cold appeared gradually to sub- 

 side. Lectured for four weeks without inconvenience. 

 28th, much exhausted by class and a Royal Society 

 Council Meeting. 29th, gave an extra lecture. 30th, 

 seized with haemorrhage, the commencement of a long 

 and severe illness.' 



H' re are the thoughts he wrote down at the time : 



'November 30th, 1851. 



'This morning I spat blood. It was neither caused nor 



accompanied by any cough, so that I incline to take 



a favourable view, and to believe that it does not come 



from the lungs. Nevertheless I felt on the 28th great 



r Irrturinij. Them is enough in this to 



16 serious, and when I consider that I have lately 



found it : t to jix my thoughts mi anything lieyoiid 



ami : : ad that the i Dilation of my 



; ghts generally has been far from strict an id, 



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