His attitude to his professional brethren was one in which the gentleman and physician were ever blend¬ ed. To that native dignity which so characterized him, and to that marked observance of etiquette so necessary in our profession, he united a rare unselfish¬ ness, which often prompted him to share the success and reward of his own operations with physicians younger and less deserving than himself. The loving confidence and loyalty of his patients was something of which any man might justly

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... ast, and this was often his only recompense. In the eyes of his lady patients he stood, "like Saul amongst his brethren, much taller than the rest," and long will they hold in tender remembrance " The touch of a vanished hand,