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time. When, however, he was at length appointed one of the House 
Surgeons to the Eoyal Infirmary, the enthusiasm with which he 
threw himself into the work of clinical teaching, and the success 
which attended him, induced Professor Lawrie, to whom he was 
ever deeply attached, to appoint him to conduct his class when 
failing health prevented him from fulfilling his work ; and, as an 
evidence of his popularity and success as a teacher, the students 
presented him at the close of the session with a handsome 
testimonial. 
On the death of Dr Hunter in 1859, Macleod was appointed to 
succeed him in the Andersonian : this gave him the outlet he wished ; 
and by gradually dropping certain departments of general practice, 
he was enabled to confine himself more entirely to his work as a 
teacher. In 1859 the Chair of Surgery in the University fell 
vacant, through the death of Professor Lawrie ; and, though Sir 
Joseph (then Mr) Lister was appointed to the Chair, the ten years 
which he passed at the Andersonian were of incalculable value, for 
the experience which he gained there of teaching, in addition to the 
knowledge of his subject which he had previously received in Paris 
and in the Crimea, made his claims paramount when, in 1869, the 
Chair of Surgery in the University again fell vacant by the 
removal of Sir Joseph Lister to Edinburgh. Prom that time 
onward, having then dropped general practice altogether, his heart 
was completely bound up in the success of his classes at the Univer- 
sity and the Western Infirmary. Cnly those who met him there can 
know the enthusiasm for his work which, even up to the day of his 
death, possessed him ; and this enthusiasm he transferred to his 
students, who flocked to him in such numbers that every available 
corner of his large class-room was crowded, many having to content 
themselves with standing room, or to seek some insecure or uncom- 
fortable resting-place upon a window sill or upon the floor. Yet 
with it all he never found any difficulty in maintaining the most 
absolute order, though often he expressed himself amazed at the 
attention he met with, and the earnestness and interest with which 
they followed his every word. It was his desire to help his students 
to be men of wide sympathy, and, raising them up above the mere 
drudgery and business of their profession, to make them feel some- 
thing of the dignity of their calling, and cause them to hate and 
