IN MEMORIAM. 
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IN MEMORIAM. 
At a meeting of the Connecticut Veterinary Medical 
Association, held Tuesday, December i, 1891, the following 
preamble and resolutions were introduced by Dr. Thomas 
Bland, of Waterbury, and unanimously passed: 
Whereas, death, the great, the common fate of all, which 
spares neither high nor low, strong nor weak, learned nor 
simple, rich nor poor, young nor old, has called our brother, 
our associate, our Triend, Dr. George Bridges, to rest from 
his life and to lay down the cares, the burdens, the struggles, 
and triumphs of earth; therefore, 
Resolved; By the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, that in the sad death of Dr. Bridges this Association 
has lost a valued member, his profession an earnest worker, his 
associates a true-hearted and ardent friend. Thoroughly a 
master of his profession, he brought to it all his rare powers 
of judgment, aided and matured by experience. His 
wide practice required marked ability, consummate tact, and 
a knowledge of the various branches of his profession at once 
thorough and complete. Yet, as a practitioner, he was ever 
equal to these demands, and as a scholar in veterinary medi¬ 
cine he was exact and learned. It follows that he obtained 
readily and held easily a rank among the foremost of our 
honorable and humane fraternity. Why, then, should we not 
even in our sadness, delight to honor him in fitting eulogy. 
Aside from his marked professional abilities, Dr. Bridges had 
within himself that “ touch of nature which makes all men 
kin.’’ He was an honest, kind, genial, good-hearted and 
chivalric gentleman. There were no narrow by-ways, crooked 
lanes, or dark alleys in his life. Socially, he was the best and 
of the best. He scorned an unworthy even as he honored a 
noble act. How small the proportion of mankind of whom 
this much can truthfully be said. Despising shams, whether 
in the profession or out of it, Dr. Bridges had a rugged man¬ 
hood peculiarly his own, a real nobility of character, by Na¬ 
ture’s patent given him, one far higher and more enduring 
