Address of George David Pollock, F.R.C.S., President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 1st, 1888.

  • Pollock, George David, 1817-1897.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Address of George David Pollock, F.R.C.S., President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 1st, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    field of practice. In 1861 he was appointed Assistant Physician to the Hospital of his old School, University College; and at the same date he succeeded his former teacher, Sir William Jenner, as Professor of Pathological Anatomy. In 1866 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and a few years subsequently became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1867 he resigned the Chair of Pathology and suc- ceeded to the Holme Professorship of Clinical Medicine, and also to the office of Physician to the Hospital. The duties of these appointments he continued to discharge to the time of his death. From his earliest connection with the medical profes- sion, Dr. Wilson Fox was eminently known as a tho- roughly sincere and conscientious worker, independent in his views and clear in his deductions. He had succeeded largely in private practice, and his time was greatly occu- pied by increasing professional work. In addition to this constant strain, most leisure moments were occupied in the preparation of his great work, to which allusion will be hereafter made. He was tired and somewhat overdone by work. He had arranged to leave town on a certain day, but postponed his departure for twenty- four hours, that he might be present at an interview some few friends were to have the following morning early with Sir William Jenner, to request him to sit for his portrait. On this same day, the 23rd of April, when on the point of departure for Westmoreland, he was summoned to a brother, then suffering from an acute attack of pneu- monia, which proved fatal the following day; indeed, so rapidly fatal was this attack that Wilson Fox was barely in time to find his brother alive. Wilson Fox now left Devonshire for the north with Mrs. Fox. He stopped at Preston to break the long journey to Windermere. On arrival he appeared to be suffering from fatigue and the depression natural to his
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