Obituary Notices. 
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23rd April 1854, a few days after lie had accepted the invitation, he 
started. This sudden resolve was the making of him, and was 
(though then very obscurely seen) the first rise of the tide which 
brought him long afterwards to the front. In the Chance., an 
80-ton cutter, he visited many places in the Mediterranean, and it 
was when lying in Malta that the war broke out. Through the 
recommendations of his friends, he was strongly urged to go and try 
what chance there was of employment. Leaving, therefore, his 
yachting comrades, he pushed on with all speed to Constantinojile, 
only to meet with disappointment. ISTothing was to be done there ; 
and though he made every effort to gain his end, every attempt met 
with failure, so that he was reluctantly compelled to return home. 
Yet, fruitless though the voyage appeared at the time, it was not 
really so, for in November of the same year (1854) he was again on 
the war-path. Colonel George (afterwards Sir George) Campbell of 
Garscube, who was in the 1st Koyal Dragoons, had been severely 
wounded in the heavy cavalry charge at Balaclava, and his mother, 
Mrs Campbell, anxious for his safety, and desirous to find some one 
who would go out and bring him home, called one day and asked 
Macleod if he would undertake this duty. This request he gladly 
complied with, and he travelled night and day until he found his 
patient, at Scutari, very badly wounded, and much in need of 
some one to tend him. After nursing him for many weeks at 
Scutari, and afterwards at Constantinople, he brought him back 
in safety to London. But while waiting for his friend to gain 
sufficient strength for the journey home, his restless energy, and his 
determination to make himself as efficient in his profession as he 
could, did not allow him to pass the time in idleness, for he worked 
morning, noon, and night in the English and French Hospitals, and 
saw and did a great deal of surgery, and in the dead-house was able 
to practise all the operations frequently. This action of his was 
characteristic of him all his life long : never did he allow an oppor- 
tunity escape of perfecting himself in that profession which had 
stirred his enthusiasm. By this time rumours of the unsatisfactory 
state of the hospitals in the East, and of the sufferings of the wounded, 
had reached England, and all were anxious to receive authentic infor- 
mation, none being more desirous of ascertaining the exact state of 
matters than the Government of the day. While passing through 
