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this number the oil disagreed and was discontinued in only nine 

 instances. In nineteen cases it appeared to do no good, while in the 

 large proportion of 206 out of 234 its use was followed by marked and 

 unequivocal improvement, varying in degree in different cases from a 

 temporary retardation of the progress of the disease and mitigation of 

 distressing symptoms up to a more or less complete restoration to 

 apparent health." 



Dr. Williams was by no means the first physician to prescribe cod- 

 liver oil; Dr. Bardsley, of Manchester, had used it for many years, 

 and Dr. Darling and Dr. Hughes Bennett had also anticipated him in 

 the use of this most valuable therapeutic agent. 



In 1852 Dr. Williams was telegraphed for to Walmer to see the 

 great Dake of Wellington, but he arrived too late ; nevertheless, he 

 attended the State Funeral as a medical attendant of the Duke. 



In 1858 Dr. Williams was elected President of the New Sydenham 

 Society, which was established for the purpose of translating foreign 

 works on medical subjects and the re-publication of important scattered 

 papers. 



In 1862 Dr. Williams delivered the Lumleian Lectures at the Royal 

 College of Physicians, having previously been Gulstonian Lecturer in 

 1841. 



We pass over the remaining years of Dr. Williams' career as a 

 physician, as the increasing calls of a large practice left him little 

 time for other work of more general interest, only briefly referring to 

 his action for libel against the late Duke and Duchess of Somerset, 

 which ended by his receiving an ample apology, completely clearing 

 his professional character from the aspersions cast upon it in a 

 period of excitement and distress at the loss of her son by the Duchess ; 

 and to the publication in 1871 of a work on Pulmonary Consumpticn, 

 in conjunction with his son, Dr. C. Theodore Williams ; and, lastly, 

 his election as President of the Medical and Chirurgical Society, in 

 1873, and his appointment as Physician Extraordinary to the Queen, 

 in 1874. 



In the next year he retired from practice, and made his home at 

 Cannes for the remainder of his life, dying there of pneumonia on 

 March 24th, 1889. After his retirement, among other occupations of 

 a naturally active mind, he spent some time in examining Sun-spots, 

 especially in relation to weather changes, and made many summer 

 visits to England. 



This brief account of the life of Dr. Charles J. B. Williams would 

 be very incomplete without the addition of some comments on the 

 man and his work, suggested by the perusal of the Memoirs of his 

 Life. One cannot help seeing that he w r as a man of unusual 

 ability and of great confidence as to his powers — that he was indus- 

 trious and persevering, and took full advantage of the opportunities 



