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knowledge which he brought to bear on the subject to which at last 
his energies and talents were mainly directed. 
In 1846 Dr Keiller was fortunate in securing as his partner in life 
the daughter of Major Koy, a lady in every way fitted to contribute 
to his happiness and comfort. He was elected a Fellow of the 
Royal College of Physicians in 1848, and was one of its examiners 
in Midwifery and Medical Jurisprudence ; and after having for years 
been an active member of Council, he was elected President of that 
College in 1875. On the lamented death of Dr Seller, he was 
chosen a trustee, and very recently held the appointment of Morrison 
Lecturer; in connection with which he delivered two courses of 
lectures devoted to the consideration of the nervous diseases of 
women, in which the value of his early anatomical studies and work 
were apparent. 
In 1851 he was appointed one of the Ordinary Physicians to the 
Royal Infirmary, and continued to discharge the duties of that office 
for fifteen years. While here he was the means of securing the 
setting apart of a special ward for the clinical study of the diseases 
of women. He afterwards became Consulting Physician to that 
institution ; and at the same time was chosen one of the Ordinary 
Physicians to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, which office he 
held for eight years, and during that time delivered clinical lectures 
on the diseases of children. He also held the office of Consulting 
Obstetric Physician to the Royal Public Dispensary, and was one of 
the physicians of the Royal Maternity Hospital. 
He was appointed an examiner in Midwifery at the University of 
Edinburgh, and from time to time lectured to the class of Midwifery 
in that school of learning at the request of his attached friend, Sir 
J. Y. Simpson. When the deeply lamented death of that most 
distinguished physician occurred. Dr Keiller became a candidate for 
the vacant chair, and many were the testimonials which he received 
from all parts of the world, and several of them from those who had 
attained distinguished positions in the profession, as to his eminent 
fitness to become the successor even of one so pre-eminently 
renowned as its late occupant. I may add that Dr Keiller was an 
Honorary Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, and an 
Honorary Member of the Gynaecological Society of Boston, U.S. 
His writings were very numerous, and were communicated to 
