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Michael  Carteighe. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Pharni. 
\     August,  1910. 
is  known  all  over  the  world  in  pharmaceutical  circles."  In  this  con- 
nection it  is  recorded  that  a  most  touching  incident  occurred  when 
the  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  an- 
nounced to  the  meeting  that  he  was  the  bearer  of  the  Hanbury  Gold 
Medal  which  had  been  awarded  to  Professor  Maisch  for  distin- 
guished services  and  for  original  research  in  the  natural  history 
and  chemistry  of  drugs.  Though  Professor  Maisch  was  unable  to 
be  present  at  the  meeting,  this  testimonial  fortunately  reached  him 
while  he  was  in  full  possession  of  his  faculties,  although  suitering 
severely.  His  face,  wasted  by  the  long-continued  pain  to  which  he 
had  been  subjected,  lit  up  with  a  smile  of  pleasure  when  he  received 
it,  but  a  few  short  days  before  his  earthly  existence  closed. 
In  1907  Air.  Carteighe  left  his  Bond  Street  premises,  and  severed 
his  long  connection  with  the  practice  of  pharmacy;  this  was  a 
great  wrench  to  him,  an  uprooting  from  old  associations,  which  is 
at  all  times  painful,  and  was  particularly  so  to  one  of  his  tempera- 
ment. Nevertheless,  he  continued  to  conduct  his  business  affairs 
as  usual,  and  attended  the  meetings  of  the  Council  of  the  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society  with  his  accustomed  regularity  until  the  summer  of 
1908,  when  illness  overcame  him  for  a  time,  and  left  in  its  train 
the  loss  of  the  precious  sense  of  sight,  at  iirst  partially  only,  though 
later  he  heard  us,  but  saw  nothing.  This  great  affliction  was  in  a 
measure  alleviated  for  a  time  by  some  improvement  in  Mr.  Car- 
teighe's  general  health ;  he  continued  to  devote  much  attention  to 
things  that  had  formerly  interested  him  and  to  allow  his  sense  of 
benevolence  to  run  riot,  and  in  January  last  he  returned  to  his  work 
at  17  Bloomsbury  Square.  From  that  date  until  the  end  was  very 
near  he  attended  every  meeting  of  the  Council  or  Committees,  aston- 
ishing everyone  by  his  amazing  display  of  energy  and  the  acuteness 
of  his  intellect.  Here,  surely,  we  have  the  greatest  example  of  his 
unfailing  courage.  Those  around  him  saw — and  sorrowed.  He 
was  invariably  cheerful,  though  dependent  upon  the  inflections  of 
the  voices  of  those  around  him  to  tell  him  what  formerly  he  was 
wont  to  learn  largely  from  their  faces.  He  coupled  with  a  coura- 
geous spirit  an  inexhaustible  fund  of  benevolence,  and  to  what  extent 
it  ran  will  never  be  told.  When  the  cause  of  pharmacy  required  it, 
his  time  and  purse  were  alike  at  its  service,  and  he  gave  liberally 
from  both.  He  was  never  too  busy  to  help  ;  he  never  turned  anyone 
away  empty. 
