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The latter period of his life was passed in retirement and great 
suffering from a distressing affection. It was my pleasant for^ 
tune to have passed the summer months of those recent years 
under the same roof with him. To the last he bore his physical 
ills most bravely and patiently, to the last his intellect remained 
strong and clear, and at last surrounded by the children who had 
devoted their lives to his happiness and most tenderly cared for 
him he went to his eternal rest. 
Dr. White then read the following letter from Dr. Oliver 
Wendell Holmes : — 
I regret that I cannot be present at the meeting in which the 
life-work of Dr. Storer is to be recalled and his memory to be 
honored. For many years I was associated with him as Instruc- 
tor and as Professor, and had ample opportunities of becoming 
acquainted with his excellences of mind and character. 
Of a sensitive organization he had much to struggle with in the 
discharge of his professional duties. I have heard him describe 
the trials he endured from frequent excruciating headaches while 
engaged in the most arduous and responsible duties of the pro- 
fession. Nothing could hold him back from the service of his 
patients. His industry and capacity gained him a large practice 
in the branch to Avhich he especially devoted himself, and he 
became one of the most eminent obstetricians of our city, as well 
as successful and distinguished in family practice. 
His reputation in his more special department marked him as 
the successor of Dr. Walter Channing in the Professorship of 
Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical School of 
Harvard University. This office he held from 1854 to 1868, 
during which time we were always in the most friendly relations, 
as we continued to be to the end of his life. 
Asa Professor he was remarkable beyond any of his colleagues 
for the personal interest he took in the students. He kept Up a 
familiar, friendly, paternal, or rather fraternal companionship 
with many among them, and did more probably than any one of 
ns to make them love their medical Alma Mater. 
His mental activity was not exhausted by his professional la- 
bors. What he did in Natural History, the services he ren- 
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