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handsome and valuable testimonial in silver plate was 
presented to him from his friends and pupils. 
Mr. Jordan had further claims upon public regard as a 
large benefactor to suffering humanity by professional un- 
paid services. In his private practice, extending over more 
than fifty years, Mr. Jordan ever showed a special devotion 
to the relief of the sickness and suffering of the poor. His 
great professional skill, often unpaid, and even supplemented 
by a liberal purse, and that genuine kindness which ever 
doubles the value of a gift, won for him the blessings of 
thousands. Nor was his philanthropy less conspicuous in 
official positions. About 1819 he aided largely in founding 
the Lock Hospital, for unfortunate women, of which he was 
the surgeon or consulting surgeon till he finally retired 
from practice, He was always a steady benefactor to the 
institution, in wise counsel and liberal donations. In 1835 
he was appointed an honorary medical officer of the Royal 
Infirmary, and long filled the honourable position of its 
senior surgeon with the highest credit to himself and with 
great benefit to the institution and the community at large. 
Within its walls he often performed some of the greater as 
well as the more delicate operations of surgery ; his remark- 
able nerve and steadiness and precision of hand admirably 
qualifying him for these duties. He invented a most beau- 
tiful little lamp to obtain a magnified view of the membrane 
tympani and other organs, for which the Society of Arts 
awarded their silver medal. His clinical lectures in the 
hospital wards always attracted a large and attentive fol- 
lowing of the pupils and students, and a few years ago a very 
numerously signed testimonial was presented to him by the 
pupils of the Royal Infirmary for these lectures. He was a 
most eloquent and interesting lecturer, and his great and 
long experience enabled him to illustrate his lectures with 
cases bearing upon the subject, which rivetted the attention 
and increased the knowledge of his hearers. 
