OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



Dr. SiBgoy, bom in 1815 at Cross Canonby, near Maryport, in 

 Cumberland, was educated in Edinburgh, where he also commenced the 

 study of medicine. He was a pupil of Lizars, and in his pupilage, in 

 1831-2, volunteered to ser^e in the Cholera Hospital, and in that first 

 and terrible epidemic risked his life. Then he entered at Gruy's ; and 

 many who remember him there tell of the rare energy with which he 

 gave himself to study both in the wards and, especially, in the patho- 

 logical theatre. Among those whose admiration he attracted was the 

 late Dr. Hodgkin, who, from that time, never ceased to encourage him 

 in all his labour and to aid him in every way that could lead to success. 



In 1835 he was appointed resident surgeon to the Nottingham General 

 Hospital, and during that appointment, which he held till 1848, gained a 

 considerable knowledge not only of medicine, but of surgery, of which, in 

 later life, he often made good use in consultations. There, also, he made 

 his chief investigations into the mechanical physiology of respiration and 

 the position of the internal organs in health and disease, which were 

 throughout his life a principal subject of his studies ; and through these 

 his name will always be honourably remembered in the history of 

 medicine. They brought him early into high repute when first published 

 in 1841 in the ' Provincial Medical and Surgical Transactions,' and sub- 

 sequently in a separate volume. His great work on Medical Anatomy, 

 towards which most of his researches led, and in which all his chief 

 results may be studied, was published in 1869. It is a book to be com- 

 mended for its thoroughness. Its preparation involved severe labour, 

 most of which was carried on in the dead-house of the Marylebone In- 

 firmary, 



In 1848, at the end of his tenure of office at Nottingham, Mr. Sibson 

 graduated at the University of London, and passed in the same year the 

 examinations for M.B. and M.D., gaining honours in both — a note- 

 worthy achievement, considering the active life of practical work in which 

 he had long been engaged. He remained always devoted to the Univer- 

 sity, fulfilled for some years the duties of examiner in medicine, and in 

 1865 was made a member of the Senate, on the nomination of Convoca- 

 tion. Few were so constant as he in attention to all the business of the 

 university that had relation to the medical or other natural sciences. 

 Alike in the senate, in committees, and in convocation, he was zealous 

 for the promotion of all good designs. 



The like may be said of his work in the College of Physicians, of which 

 he became a member in 1849 and a Fellow in 1853. In this year he 

 delivered the Grulstoniau Lectures, in 1870 the Croonian, in 1873 the 



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