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ministrations, and he often sketched out for it a beautiful future, when Nature
shall have been made to give up to her students many secrets as precious as
that of Anaesthesia. He made his school famous, and his house a Pool of
Healing for all nations. To his own city he was profoundly attached ; no one
ever loved her antiquity better, and no one saw more of her poor. When he
first began to be missed from his home and the familiar streets, the poor of
the city came down in crowds on Sundays to see where 30,000 mourners had
laid their true friend, the baker’s son, and by their feet the grass of his grave
was trodden bare. He died at the age of fifty-nine, of nothing so much as
of over-work, and his only regret in dying was that he had done so little in a
world where there is so much to do. Few men have ever done so much.
ARHORIAL BMRINGS
OF SIP JAbleS Y. SIYPSON. EhRT.
