Editorial Note

Abstract

was appointed Assistant Physician at Guy's, becoming in due course Physician. But ill-health caused his retirement from the Hospital in 1843 at the early age of 54. His remaining years were devoted to consulting practice, to travel and to his many artistic interests. In spite of ill-health his practice, which had been slow in coming, grew to be perhaps the largest in London. He died after a short final illness on December 14th,