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thousands of instructive precedents; and, above all, 
such uniform advocacy of the purest and highest and 
most disinterested aspects of medical work, as com- 
bined to render these lectures strikingly suggestive 
and valuable. But in addition to this routine work, 
though done with such spirit and enthusiasm as showed 
that it was always fresh to him, there were occasionally 
important original investigations suggested by him 
and carried out with his assistance. The most extend- 
ed and complete of these special studies was that 
upon “The Blood in Malarial Fever,’ which was based 
upon an unusual series of cases of severe malarial 
fever from Southern seaports admitted to the Penn- 
sylvania Hospital in 1866. The results of this investi- 
gation were highly important, and established, certainly 
for the first time in this country, certain additional 
facts in regard to the nature and mode of action of 
this singular poison, It was characteristic of the lib- 
erality and courtesy with which Dr. Meigs invariably 
treated his junior colleagues, that in publishing these 
results he insisted upon the names of his collaborators, 
who were then the resident physicians serving under 
him in the hospital, being associated in the authorship. 
How many times have I heard him, when about to 
leave the hospital, after several houts enthusiastic 
work in the wards, in the microscope room, or in the 
pathological laboratory, exclaim that if it was only 
possible he would prefer infinitely to spend his life in 
a hospital, devoting himself to original researches 
