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papers and monographs, such as those on coalminers’ phthisis, on 
Addison’s disease, on several forms of diseases of the nervous 
system, and on diseases of the heart and kidneys. The greater 
number of these publications appeared in the Edinburgh Medical 
Journal , with which he was officially connected as joint-editor from 
1859 to 1861, and as sole-editor from 1866 to 1869. 
Dr. Sanders had now acquired a high reputation as a scientific 
observer and a physician, and on the chair of General Pathology 
in the University becoming vacant by the resignation of Professor 
Henderson in. 1869, his acknowledged eminence as a pathologist 
secured for him the appointment. He entered upon the duties of 
his new office with the same spirit as had characterised all his other 
undertakings. He determined, in the first place, that his teaching 
should be thorough. His great anxiety was that he should place 
before his students such an account of his subject as would 
adequately represent every important doctrine and fact, and he 
spared no trouble in collecting from all sources the materials that 
were required for this object. His previous training in scientific 
observation and in teaching had placed him in an advantageous 
position for ensuring success. His knowledge was great, his judg- 
ment and critical genius well-balanced, and the familiarity resulting 
from long experience had enabled him to overcome a diffidence 
which was natural to him, and to impart to his lectures a 
decision in statement and earnestness in manner which were 
peculiarly attractive to his hearers. 
On his appointment to the professorship of General Pathology he 
retired from the office of Ordinary Physician to the Royal Infirmary, 
but continued the teaching of clinical medicine in the wards of the 
Infirmary assigned for this purpose to the University. The medical 
school of the University had already entered upon that course of 
rapid growth and reviving importance which has been uninter- 
ruptedly maintained to the present time ; and although the teaching 
of medicine in its most practical aspect was then in the hands of 
such masters as Bennett and Laycock, the accession of Dr. Sanders 
proved of the greatest value. Afterwards, when the failing health 
of his colleagues interfered with their sharing in the work of clinical 
teaching, the value of his ripe experience as a teacher became the more 
apparent. For a time, indeed, the entire responsibility of conduct- 
