Thomas Hill Pattison, M.D.

Date:
[1885]
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Credit: Thomas Hill Pattison, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Infirmary, and gave the necessary amount to furnish a ward, and is understood to have made a liberal bequest to it on condition of a bed being recognised by his name. He also during his life- time presented the College of Surgeons with £1000. He was also a liberal donor to the Provident Dispensary, with the management of which he was associated in the later years of his life. Dr Pattison was never married, and in politics was Conserva- tive. As a member of the Free Church of Scotland he has liberally bequeathed to its schemes, and, in addition to several legacies of small amount to private friends, has left a portion of his estate to the University of Edinburgh, and another of like amount to the Free Church College, for the foundation of a Bursary. For some time past Dr Pattison had been nervously failing both in mind and limbs, and on tlie 15th of May, after being engaged in collecting the rents from his property, he had an apoplectic seizure. His speech and left side were affected. He partially regained power in the arm, but not in the lower limbs. On the 4th of July there were indications of consolidation at the base of both lungs. As he had previously suffered from mitral lesion it was evident the end was not far distant, but true to the faith he had professed in life, he manifested it to the close, for amongst the last utterances before unconsciousness sealed his lips were the words, Come, Lord Jesus, soon, and take the old man home. KDJNUUKGII : rillNTKD BY OLIVKll AXD noVII.