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found time, in addition to the cares of teaching and practice, for much 
original research, the results of which are embodied in many contributions 
to medical literature. Of his more important works may be mentioned the 
Illustrations of the Mid and Hind Brain, a work which was an elaboration 
of his M.D. thesis for which he received a University gold medal, and 
which was for many years a standard work of reference on the anatomy of 
that part of the brain ; his Topographical Atlas of the Spinal Cord ; and 
the paper entitled “ Distribution of the Cells in the Intermedio-lateral Tract 
of the Spinal Cord,” published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh, and for which he was awarded the Keith Prize by the Society 
in 1907. In 1903 he founded, and has since edited, the Review of Neurology 
and Psychiatry, a monthly journal devoted to nervous and mental diseases, 
which now has a wide circulation both in this country and abroad. Dr 
Bruce was an excellent linguist and a frequent attender at the meetings of 
various medical societies and congresses. He had the distinction of being a 
corresponding member of the Neurological Society of Paris, and he had 
translated from German Thoma’s Manual of Pathology, and shortly before 
his death had just published in two large volumes a translation of Oppen- 
heim’s celebrated Text-book of Nervous Diseases. Amongst other honours 
it may be mentioned that he was an original member of the Neurological 
Society of the United Kingdom and was on the editorial staff of its 
magazine, Brain ; that some years ago he was the Morrison Lecturer at 
the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh ; and that in 1909 the University 
of Aberdeen conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in recognition 
of his eminence as a teacher, physician, and scientist. To his patients, both 
in hospital and in private, he was ever the beloved physician ; his services 
were much in demand, and to all he gave of his best ungrudgingly. Many 
of his patients were of the type to whom the personal element in the 
physician is everything, and there can be little doubt that the constant 
strain of his practice, combined with so much teaching and literary work, 
was responsible for his untimely break-down and death. As a colleague 
he enjoyed the highest respect of his professional brethren ; and to those who 
were privileged to know him intimately there was revealed, in addition to 
his uprightness of character and general charm of manner, a great depth of 
quiet humour and a tenderness which greatly endeared him and make his 
loss deeply felt. 
