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of the shoulder joint after it had been shattered by a rifle bullet 
For his good and courageous work at this time he was rewarded both 
by the British and French Governments, being knighted by our 
Queen, and made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 
Peace being at length restored, Cormack returned to his more 
usual- work of physician, but now just as the sun of prosperity had 
begun to shine upon him, and when he had received honours of 
which any man might be proud, the end drew near. He had never 
fairly got over the effects of his exertions during the war. Although 
still looking fairly well, and in his usual good temper and spirits, he 
was a sufferer from bladder disease, and he died on 13tlr May 1882. 
This was not the only bereavement which the Franco-German 
and Commune wars brought upon the Cormack family. In 1842 
Cormack had married Miss Hine, the daughter of a merchant at 
Trelawney, Jamaica. She, too, was one of the victims of these times 
of political trouble. She never recovered from the effects of the 
privation and distress to which all Paris at that time had been more 
or less subjected. The inclemency of a hard snowy winter, the 
bursting of shells and the rattle of the fusillade, the crash of falling 
houses, the want of due supplies of food, and the necessity of 
waiting, sometimes for hours, in the queue of persons who had to 
go, single file, to the bakers’ shops to get their loaf of bread, were 
not likely to leave unshattered the health of a lady born in the 
West Indies, and who had been the mother of eleven children, and 
no one therefore need be surprised to learn that in three months 
Lady Cormack followed her husband to the grave. She died on 19tli 
July 1882. 
Cormack had had eleven children, and among his trials of life 
was the mortality which occurred among them. Two died in 
childhood, of scarlet fever and typhoid respectively. One who was 
grown up died in Brazil, of phthisis after yellow fever. In 1876 
death dealt heavy blows on Cormack. His daughter, Mrs Lyon, 
died in India soon after giving birth to a boy, who was a great 
solace to his grandfather in his last years ; and within a week of this 
event in India he lost in Paris his son Bailey Cormack, who was a 
promising young member of the medical profession — his father’s 
right hand man in his surgical work in the war time, and whose 
excellent qualities cannot be better recorded than they are in the 
