Life of a London physician / Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alec Tweedie.
- Harley, George.
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Life of a London physician / Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alec Tweedie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![[ v] INTRODUCTION. When George Harley was asked why he did not write his life, he repHed : 'I will scribble my reminiscences when I retire from practice, for I have much to tell about strange folk and foreign lands, to say nothing of how I have watched the development of medical science.' ' But why not now'?' was the question repeated again and again. ' Simply because I have not time. At seventy I mean to retire from practice, and I shall then amuse myself by sorting out and arranging the chaos lying dormant in my brain; now if I began to take down the dusty volumes from their shelves, I might never stop,' he would laughingly say. He never lived to seventy, for he died at sixty-seven, and he never retired from practice, for he died while still in harness. Thus cut off before accomplishing his purpose, I, his daughter, thought I Avould undertake the task. Full of this design, a few days before Christmas, 1897, I called upon Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Smiles. The dear old lady, with white hair and dark bushy eyebrows, looked sad. * Sam is very ailing,' she said. ' He will be eighty-five](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21219710_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
