1 Proceedings of Royal Society of Ediiiburgh. 
shun all that was mean and all that was base. His interest in them 
never failed ; they might rely upon his ready help and warm sym- 
pathy though years might have passed since they sat under him at 
the University or followed him in his clinical teaching at the 
Infirmary. For it was ever a pleasure to him to welcome back old 
students, and hear from them how it had fared with them since they 
had left the shelter of the College walls. 
Skilful though he was as an operator, and through firmness of 
nerve able to perform with success the most difficult operations, yet 
his interest in his patients did not then terminate. His care and 
watchfulness never relaxed until the cure was complete, and even 
then he was glad to see them again, and to hear of their welfare. 
Those who followed him and heard him teach, and saw him operate, 
can testify to his power of attraction and to the care which he 
lavished upon every case ; but it was only those who could follow 
him home who knew the strain and stress which it all involved, and 
how deeply he felt the suffering which he did all that in him lay to 
relieve. Many were the sleepless nights he spent, after the toils and 
anxieties of the day, imagining all the possible contingencies that 
might arise to frustrate his skill and care ; and this highly strung 
nervous temperament, which in our estimate of him we should not 
forget, did much to wear out his otherwise robust constitution. 
It is, however, impossible to do justice to this latter portion of his 
life, for which, after all, the earlier portion was but the preparation ; 
though, no doubt, as it has been most truly said, his best memorial 
lies in the hearts of the thousands of medical men scattered all over 
the globe, who owe to him mainly the groundwork of all their 
surgical knowledge. Perhaps we cannot do better than to insert 
here a passage from the Glasgow University Magazine^ which, coming 
from such a source, may well be taken to indicate how much he was 
beloved by the students of his Alma Mater. Nothing would have 
cheered his heart so much than to have known that those, for whose 
welfare he had so earnestly and devotedly laboured, understood and 
reciprocated his feelings. After speaking of the loss which they felt 
they had sustained when the news of his sudden death reached them, 
and of how unexpected it was to those of his own class, who, at the 
close of the session, had listened to his usual hearty farewell till a 
welcome return to the winter’s work, the article continues : — 
