CHAP, xiii.] DR. FACET'S STATEMENT. 411 



narrowly, and had the best reason to know the 

 acuteness of his sufferings. 



The end may best be told by those who were 

 nearest to him at the time. I have been favoured 

 with the following communications : (1) From Dr. 

 Paget ; (2) from the Eev. Dr. Guillemard ; and (3) 

 from his cousin, Mr. Colin Mackenzie, who acted the 

 part of a brother at the last, as he had done many a 

 time before. 



(1.) Dr. Paget' s Statement. 



In April 1879 he began to be troubled with some 

 difficulty in swallowing the first significant symptom of 

 the disease which was to prove fatal. The summer he 

 spent at Glenlair. At the end of July he consulted Prof. 

 Sanders and Prof. Spence of Edinburgh, and while at Glen- 

 lair was attended by Dr. Lorraine of Castle-Douglas. But 

 he grew worse, and at the end of September Prof. Sanders 

 was summoned to him from Edinburgh. He was then 

 suffering from attacks of violent pain, had become dropsical, 

 and his strength was rapidly failing. At Glenlair he was 

 seven miles from Dr. Lorraine. It was therefore decided to 

 remove him to Edinburgh or Cambridge. He chose Cam- 

 bridge, and arrived there on October 8, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Maxwell, and attended during the journey by Dr. Kichard 

 Lorraine. 



In Cambridge his more severe sufferings were gradually 

 in great measure relieved, but the disease continued its pro- 

 gress. It was the disease of which his mother had died 

 at the same age. 



As he had been in health, so was he in sickness and in 

 face of death. The calmness of his mind was never once 

 disturbed. His sufferings were acute for some days after 

 his return to Cambridge, and, even after their mitigation, 

 were still of a kind to try severely any ordinary patience 

 and fortitude. But they were never spoken of by him in a 



