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medical science and skill failed to remove it. He lived for about a year, 
after the nature of his disease became known to him, and at times he 
suffered great pain. In the latter part of the time he could take but little 
food, and his strong frame, more than six feet in hei :ht, became very 
much emaciated. He was nursed with the tenderest care ; and a supply of 
the bark of the Cundurango plant from South America was obtained for 
him, which has been highly spoken of as a remedy for cancerous diseases, 
but which failed in this case. 
The Christian character of Edward Miller was beautifully exhibited in 
his last illness, and he was a fine example of ‘‘the power of religion upon 
the mind in retirement, affliction, and at the approach of death.” He had 
long been a member and an elder of the Presbyterian Church, Although 
a person of very positive opinions, and free in the expression of them, he 
was a broad-minded man, and some of his nearest friends were not of his 
religious communion. At the last, he passed away serenely to his final 
rest, full of Christian faith and hope. 
He died on the first of February, 1872, in the sixty-second year of his 
age, at his house in West Philadelphia, and was buried at Woodlands 
Cemetery. 
