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 and never engaged in acrimonious controversy. No man ever succeeded better in winning and preserving the affection of his equals; and he had the happiness of being hailed as a benefactor of the poor. The infirmities of old age, from which he was not altogether exempted, were mitigated by the society of his relatives and friends; and, though his decease has created a blank which will not soon be supplied, we may venture to predict that the memory of his personal worth and professional eminence will never perish, so long as posterity shall be capable of estimating the obligations which the Medical School of Edinburgh conferred on science and humanity, in the age of and  and.