of Edinburgh, Session 1875-76. 17 
of Physiology/’ “ Text-Book of Physiology — General, Special, and 
Practical.” 
Professor Bennett had conferred upon him numerous honours and 
distinctions. He was President for two years of the Medico-Chirur- 
gical Society of Edinburgh ; Hon. Secretary and emeritus President 
of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh ; and Fellow of numerous 
medical societies on the Continent. He bad sent to him, about a 
year before bis death, a special licence from the French Govern- 
ment entitling him to practise medicine in France. This honour 
was probably suggested by the fact of his having, two or three 
years before his death, resided in the south of France for the 
benefit of his health. 
The enormous amount of work, both mental and physical, which 
Professor Bennett undertook, probably shortened his life. About 
1865 his first illness appeared in the form of a throat affection. 
Having recovered by a sojourn in the south of France, and returned 
to Edinburgh, he was again prostrated in 1869. After an interval 
he recovered, but in the winter of 1871-2 he was obliged to return 
to Mentone. During the following summer, he resumed work in 
Edinburgh, and gave some clinical lectures. The winters of 
1872-3 and of 1873-4 again forced him into a warmer climate, 
but each time with less benefit. In the year 1874, he resigned the 
Chair of the Institutes of Medicine. Last winter he spent in Nice. 
His last illness was owing to disease of the bladder. In August 
last he returned to Norwich, the place of his birth, where an 
operation was performed, and a stone was extracted. The debility 
caused by this operation, combined with previous exhaustion of 
constitution, brought on death. 
Undoubtedly, Professor Bennett was in the medical profession 
a person of great eminence. He introduced many very important 
changes in medical practice, and made known many new principles. 
His devotion to study and investigation probably led to his having 
the character of being somewhat unsociable and austere. But 
those who had the privilege of intimacy with him, know that he 
was truthful, honest, honourable, and earnest in every relation of 
life. 
The Rev. Dr Thomas Jackson Crawford joined our Society in 
vol. IX. 
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