270 (Oct. 19, 
Pepper.) 
An insatiable reader of medical literature, he was 
ever acquainted with the latest views as to the nature 
and treatment of disease, and while his extensive 
opportunities of observation had rendered him con- 
servative and critical of mere theory, he was always 
willing to recognize and profit by real advances in the 
healing art. 
He employed a special assistant, whom he paid lib- 
erally, to make full records of every case under treat- 
ment in his wards, and I have had many opportunities 
of knowing that these records, embodying as they did 
his own accurate observations, and wise or ingenious 
suggestions, were admirable specimens of clinical work. 
But here, as in all his medical work, it was clear that 
his great and abiding interest was the welfare of his 
patients, and the actual relief of their sufferings. 
During the entire period of his connection with 
the hospital, he took his full share of the public clinical 
teaching, which has been carried on there for 107 
years. His lectures were unlike any others to which 
I have listened. With no pretence at oratorical effect, 
but with, on the other hand, the most perfectly natural 
and conversational style, there was such an air of can- 
dor and utter truthfulness, so much delicate and 
refined disclosure of his own nature and thoughts, 
upon many other subjects than the medical question 
immediately under discussion; such varied and _ rich 
illustration of the question from the stores of a curi- 
ously retentive memory, charged with all the details of 
