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of chloroform, and likewise of acupressure — Doric 

 columns of the new temple of conservative surgery — 

 his special insight into disease and his novel appliances 

 to alleviate the sorrows of womankind, have materially 

 aided in promoting a higher life and a happier social 

 status. To-day Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart., stands 

 alone in modern medicine, nor is he less distinguished 

 in the collateral sciences — in archaeology and the 

 world of letters. 



Dr. Martin Barry, so much esteemed by Goodsir, 

 was a man of silence and " of drab," yet ever true and 

 philosophical. Quakerism has had within its ranks 

 John Dalton the chemist, and Thomas Young, the 

 natural philosopher, both of whom adorned the highest 

 paths of science ; Martin Barry might be claimed as 

 its greatest physiologist. He graduated in Edinburgh 

 in 1833, and was the twelfth Enolishman to ascend 



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Mont Blanc (September 1834). He travelled much 

 and studied more, wrote ably on embryology, and 

 helped to indoctrinate the British mind with the new 

 anatomy of the French and German schools. Barry 

 and Goodsir may be said to have worked in the same 

 field of inquiry; the latter practised his usual assiduity, 

 but rarely attained greater success than was a warded the 

 accurate and painstaking Quaker. They were loving 

 friends, and their names are to be found associated in 

 the field of histology and embryology ; the latter was 

 Barry's forte, sometimes called Ins earthly idol. No 

 man in Britain helped more fco extend the horizon of 

 cell-discovery during the first years of its history than 



