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Unfortunately Dr Handyside’s health gave way under the strain 
of his practice, and he was forced to go abroad for rest and 
change. In 1863, however, on the appointment of Dr Struthers 
to the chair of Anatomy in Aberdeen, he was persuaded to 
resume his anatomical teaching at Surgeons’ Hall, and he continued 
to conduct his class there until within a few weeks of his death. 
Dr Handyside was clear and emphatic as a lecturer, and 
possessed the esteem and respect of his students, to whom he was 
ever most attentive and courteous. He was an excellent draughts- 
man, a most important talent for an anatomical teacher. He was 
surgeon to the Edinburgh hospital for four years, and was a clinical 
lecturer there. He performed some most skilful operations, of 
some of which accounts were published. Dr Handyside was 
elected a Fellow of the Koyal Society of Edinburgh on 20th 
February 1847. 
Dr Handyside was intimately connected with the Edinburgh 
Medical Missionary Society from the first year of its existence, and 
he was for forty years on its committee or on the board of its 
directors. He himself opened and conducted for some years a 
dispensary on medical mission principles at Main Point, between 
West Port and Lauriston. Much good work was done, and Dr 
Handyside exercised a most wholesome moral and religious 
influence over the students whom he gathered round him there. 
In 1858 Dr Handyside transferred this private dispensary to 39 
Cowgate, and it was three years afterwards formally adopted by 
the directors of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. 
He devoted much attention to Comparative Anatomy, and was 
particularly interested in the structure of fishes. In connection 
with this subject he contributed to our Proceedings in 1873 a 
paper “ On the Anatomy of a new species of Polyodon (P. Gladius, 
Martens))”* and he resumed the subject in a continuation of the 
above paper in 1878, In these contributions he gave an anato- 
mical description of the respiratory, circulatory, and pneumatic 
systems in this remarkable fish, and also noticed shortly its 
alimentary and other viscera. He proposed, in a further continua- 
tion of the paper, to give an account of its articular system and 
endo-skeleton, but unfortunately did not live to overtake this part 
of the subject. 
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