Some lectures by Sir George E. Paget / edited from MSS. ; with a memoir by Charles E. Paget.

  • George Edward Paget
Date:
1893
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Credit: Some lectures by Sir George E. Paget / edited from MSS. ; with a memoir by Charles E. Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    generally regarded as worthless. He was, con- sequently, invariably kind and considerate. He was social by nature, an admirable story-teller, and keenly humorous. His memory was parti- cularly good, even over a very wide range of subjects, and rarely failed him. His business capacities were very marked during the whole of his life, not excepting that period of it when he was most harassed by the duties of his provincial practice, and the necessity of presiding over the meetings of the General Medical Council in London. His papers were always kept carefully arranged, and all his habits were orderly. Such, in bare outline, is the record of a life of singular purity, devotion to duty, and un- selfishness in private life. The inevitable end came, but happily not preceded by a period of long and wearisome suffering. A fortnight before he died he was dining out, and he was then in good health and spirits. On the night of January ]6th 1892, however, he was cold and feverish; by noon the next day he had some cough, his
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