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gracefully before a blow, but recovering always his form and deliv- 
ering though playfully replies whose keen logic and aptitude 
disposed often of an antagonist as effectually and often as uncon- 
sciously to the victim as the fabled sword of Saladin could have 
done. 
In 1886 he was called upon to part from his beloved wife. He 
continued, however, laboring calmly and steadily in the paths of 
literary labor and beneficent activity as long as his health and 
strength permitted. 
In 1893, accompanied by his youngest daughter, he went to 
Japan, where he engaged actively in philanthropic work in connec- 
tion with the prevention of the opium traffic to Formosa, the work 
of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the activities 
organized under the influence of the Society of Friends. 
In this work he was enabled to accomplish much,.as his fame 
and position there had been already established as the author of 
useful works on medicine, translated and published by Keuvada at 
Tokio, and used as text-books. 
In 1894 he returned home for a short time, but soon again 
departed in 1895 for this far-off field, where he studied the hos- 
pitals at Tokio and elsewhere in the empire, among them two for 
lepers; and practiced considerably among the missionaries, 
especially in consultation. During two summers at Sapporo, north- 
ern Japan, he had much pleasant intercourse with professors and 
students of the Imperial College of Agriculture, members of the 
medical society and missionaries and others summering there. 
There he lived and there he died, February 10, 1897, peacefully, 
after a short illness of only two days. 
The appreciation of his work by those among ions and for 
whom he thus labored may be best shown by the following notice 
which appeared in the Japan Mazl of February t2, 1897: 
Funeral of Dr. Hartshorne. 
The funeral services of the late Henry Hartshorne, M.D., LL.D., of 
Philadelphia, Penn., U. S. A., were held on Thursday, February 11, in 
the meeting-house of the Friends’ Mission in Mita, Shiba District, Tokyo. 
They were marked throughout by a very impressive simplicity and 
repose, quite in accord with the expressed desire of the deceased. The 
building was filled with friends, Japanese and foreign, old and young, 
missionaries and merchants, teachers and students, who united to pay 
