IN MEMORIAM 
ANDREW FLEMING, M. D. IN MEMORIAM 
ANDREW FLEMING, M. D. 
Born, July 3, 1830, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Died, August 18, 1896, Magnolia, Mass. 
" I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do." 
PITTSBURGH: 
THE EICHBAUM PRESS. 
1898. IN MEM0R1AM. 
MARGARET LYON YALDEN. 
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, September 19, 1896. 
We scarcely realized that the twilight shadows were falling 
about him; we only saw the sunset glow ; and through its 
radiance watched the busy, active, noble life of him we loved ; 
nor did we dream that night time was at hand. How could we ? 
There was naught to warn us-naught to tell us that the day 
was waning in the life of one whose age was " clearer than the 
noon-day." He. who was always ready with comfort and cheer 
for others, never thought or spoke of self. 
In the death of Dr. Andrew Fleming, at Magnolia, Mass., 
August 18, 1896, the City of Pittsburgh lost a distinguished 
citizen, many lost an eminent physician, and how many, only 
our own hearts can estimate, lost a beloved friend. 
With him his profession was an art, and into it he threw the 
profoundest passions of his soul-but it was an art without 
limitation-a single restriction. It emanated from a mind trained 
and broadened by intercourse with all that was best in the 
realms of intellectuality, and extended into the most intimate 
relations of home and social life. 
Whatever was new in scientific fields, he quickly grasped and 
assimilated, and in the world of literature he was first and fore- 
most in laying hold of all that was of weight and value. 
He possessed the rare faculty of sifting out the great from 
the little, the true from the false, and to this his extensive 
library bears ample and striking testimony. 
2 In the small coterie of brilliant men, which perhaps repre- 
sented the most real intellectual life of our city, Dr. Fleming 
was one of the choice spirits, and it was in his home that, for 
many years, these friends spent an evening together each week, 
in grave and gay discourse. It was a privilege, indeed, to be 
present on such an occasion, and is recalled as one of the 
pleasant memories of the past. 
Dr. Fleming's gift for languages was, well known. In addi- 
tion to being a fine classical scholar, he was a deep student of 
French and German literature, besides having a conversational 
knowledge of the Italian and Spanish tongues. I remember 
very well entering his office one day and finding a copy of the 
New Testament in Italian lying open on the desk. To my 
question, he replied : " The best way to commence the study 
of a language is to read through the New Testament." And it 
was not long before the Italian was added to his previous store 
of languages. 
A visit to that office was always a treat to me, for I was sure 
to bring away something besides the mere physical cure. He 
had such large, warm sympathy, such ardent desire to relieve, 
such tenderness for the small pain, with all the time an almost 
miraculous insight into the real trouble. How often have I left 
his presence with a lighter heart and a smiling wonder over my 
recent depression. But that door is closed now and the dear, 
kind voice is silenced. He possessed the confidence and love of 
his patients to an unusual degree, and many, many sorrowing 
hearts have testified to their deep sense of loss for friend and 
physician. 
One friend, thoroughly appreciative of the Doctor's character, 
thus beautifully writes : 
" How can we do without him ; so kind, so affectionate, so 
true, so honest, so pure in character, with the simplicity of a 
child and the intellect of a giant? " 
Only those who penetrated beneath the Doctor's naturally 
reserved and quiet manner fairly understood the finely strung, 
sensitive nature that shrank from any outward demonstration of 
3 thought and feeling. His sometimes apparent abruptness was 
often made to hide the tenderest emotion, and his full, rich 
voice, trained to professional firmness, never lost its sweeter 
note of sympathy. 
Ah, words are cold indeed, when they try to speak of one 
who never spoke of himself; whose unnumbered kindnesses and 
generous gifts were flung with lavish hand-but so quietly, so 
silently, that God only knew. To give utterance now to the 
many acts of beautiful generosity that colored the Doctor's life, 
would be to tear aside the veil sacred to him who drew it about 
him in his lifetime. 
"Not by the page, word-painted, 
Let life be bound or sainted; 
Deeper than written scroll, 
The colors of the soul." 
But it was in the home circle that the bright joyousness of the 
Doctor's nature drew its full breath. Those cherished home 
ties which came late into his life, but how, in an intensity of 
happiness, they made up for the emptier years of single life. 
He was friend, counsellor and guardian to those with whom 
these ties connected him, and there are aching hearts to-day that 
scarcely dare whisper the loss that has come to them. 
Oh, his was a life lived for a purpose, a divinely wrought 
purpose, and the beauty of Truth and Love that crowned its 
splendid achievement " has deposited on the silent shore of 
memory, images and precious things that do not die and cannot 
be destroyed." 
I leave it to others to tell of all that Dr. Fleming accom- 
plished for the advancement of medical science, and of his 
superior abilities in other directions-mine be it to speak of the 
loving kindness of the friend who fell asleep ere we had time to 
bid good night. 
The music of such lives is never stilled. Ever and again we 
hear the echo of the song-nearer, still nearer, 'til we catch the 
oft repeated refrain : " Earnestness alone makes life an Eternity." 
4 J. A. LIPPINCOTT, M. D. 
The Pennsylvania Medical Journal, August, 1897. 
By the death of Dr. Andrew Fleming, at Magnolia, Mass., on 
August 18, 1896, from intestinal obstruction, the Allegheny 
County Medical Society has lost one of the most distinguished 
of its members. He was one of the founders of the organiza- 
tion, and took an important part in the efforts made to establish 
its efficiency and influence in the community. In 1878, in view 
of the then approaching meeting of the State Medical Society 
in Pittsburgh, his commanding position in the profession sug- 
gested the propriety of his election to the presidency of the 
County Society, and many persons present will recall the 
dignified courtesy with which he performed the duties which 
devolved upon him on that occasion. 
Dr. Fleming was born in Pittsburgh, of Scottish parents, July 
3, 1830. He read medicine with Dr. Joseph P. Gazzam, at that 
time one of the leading physicians of the city. In 1853 he 
went to attend lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, from 
which he graduated in 1855. He was soon afterward elected 
resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he 
served the regular term of eighteen months. During that ser- 
vice, under the guidance of such men as the famous Gerhard, 
with whom he was a special favorite, he already gave evidence 
of the powers which led in later years to such marked success, 
and stories of the acumen of the young Pittsburgher are still 
among the traditions of the hospital. After completing his 
residential term he returned to his native city and entered into 
partnership with his old friend and preceptor, Dr. Gazzam. 
This partnership, to both agreeable and beneficial, terminated 
only with the death of the elder physician. From that time 
up to the moment when he left the city for his last holiday. Dr. 
5 Fleming was engaged in active practice in the extremest sense 
of the word. His activity was enormous. His reputation 
became so thoroughly established and so widely extended that 
he was enabled to lend a helping hand to many a struggling 
practitioner. Nevertheless, although his clientele as a whole was 
what is usually called a select one, many of the tears dropped 
upon the bier of this "beloved physician" were shed by the 
children of poverty; for Dr. Fleming, like every true physician, 
realized that " the poor are our best patients, since God is their 
paymaster." 
His vast capacity for work was due partly to an intense sense 
of order. He could at a moment's notice lay his hand on any 
book in his extensive library, or on any one of the hundreds of 
interesting specimens, anatomical, botanical, mineralogical, etc., 
which he possessed ; and this orderliness was manifested in all 
the details of his professional life. To this quality was joined a 
lively appreciation of the value of time. He was never hurried, 
but he was never idle 
Wie das Gestirn, ohne Hast aber ohne Rast. 
At consultations-and his consulting practice was large-he 
invariably arrived at the exact hour appointed, and he was 
somewhat impatient of tardiness on such occasions, although 
his rebukes of the " weaker brethren " took the form of good 
humored banter. 
Dr. Fleming was exceptionally gifted with the faculties that 
go to make the ideal physician. His perceptive powers were 
extraordinary. No detail escaped his penetrating glance ; odors 
and sounds imperceptible or meaningless to most others were 
never lost upon him ; and the tactile sense residing in his 
delicately moulded hands seemed preternaturally acute. His 
mental processes were so rapid that he often seemed to arrive 
at a diagnosis by intuition. As a result of his wide experience 
and unceasing study, aided by a memory that never failed, his 
mind was a storehouse in which was collected a rich and orderly 
array of the treasures of medical science in all its departments. 
6 This was, perhaps, especially noticeable in the domain of thera- 
peutics. His accurate and comprehensive knowledge of the 
materia medica gave him an exceptional fertility of resource in 
prescribing, for, unlike most men past middle age, he did not 
believe in " settling down to a few drugs." 
But while Dr. Fleming was primus inter pares in his chosen 
profession, he was at the same time a man of the broadest cul- 
ture. His general library was one of the largest and best 
selected in the State, and its contents had been thoroughly 
assimilated. His knowledge of biography, history, poetry, and 
even of lighter literature, was encyclopedic, and his immense 
fund of information was frequently drawn upon to decide dis- 
puted questions. 
The extent and variety of his reading were favored by the 
possession of a rather uncommon gift for acquiring languages. 
He was fairly familiar with the ancient classics, he had a work- 
ing knowledge of Italian and Spanish, and he spoke French and 
German about as fluently as his mother tongue. 
He found time amidst the cares and toils of an exacting prac- 
tice to cultivate an acquaintance, by no means superficial, with 
most of the natural sciences, geology, physics, astronomy, 
chemistry, natural history, botany, etc., and his keen faculty for 
minute and original observation gave such a piquancy to his 
conversation that his acquaintance was eagerly sought by experts 
in these sciences. In truth, he was a passionate lover of Nature, 
and ardently wooed her in all her myriad unfoldings. The 
flowers of the field and the trees of the forest yielded up their 
secrets to him as to a familiar friend. There was not a bird in 
our woods, not a fish in our streams, with whose characteristics 
and habits he was not intimately acquainted. In his summer 
outings he seemed to pick out by instinct the salient features of 
the locality in which he happened to be, and he has enlarged 
the list of attractions of more than one such locality by his 
discovery of interesting natural objects which had escaped previous 
observation. 
So shrewd a student of nature could scarcely fail to be a 
7 sound critic of art, and Dr. Fleming's judgment, naturally dis- 
criminating, was trained to a high pitch of excellence by a study 
of the masterpieces in painting and sculpture, ancient and 
modern, in most of the cities of Europe. 
Considering Dr. Fleming's great experience and his varied 
accomplishments, his contributions to medical literature, as in 
the case of many busy men, especially of the passing generation, 
have not been so Numerous as could have been desired, but they 
make up in quality for what they lack in quantity. Perhaps his 
most extensive literary effort was the work on " Blood Stains," 
published in 1861. It was undertaken at the special request of 
his friend, the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Lincoln's famous War 
Secretary, at that time a light of the Pittsburgh Bar. Stanton 
was about to try an important murder case, and he felt seriously 
the lack of an authoritative analytical exposition of the value of 
this sort of evidence. Dr. Fleming's brochure, which contains 
a scholarly analysis of the literature of the subject then in 
existence, and in addition gives evidence of many laborious 
hours spent in original and fruitful investigation, is even now, 
after the lapse of thirty-six years, an instructive and readable 
work. Among other publications may be mentioned his sug- 
gestive paper on "Emotional Fever," which appeared in the 
volume of the Transactions of this Society for 1879, and 
remarkably able and beautifully illustrated address on "Antero- 
Lateral Sclerosis," delivered at the expiration of his presidency 
of the County Society, and published in the American Journal 
of the Medical Sciences, Series LXXXL, p. 17. 
At the meetings of the Nathaniel Bedford Medical Club he 
read about two score papers, all of which might have been 
published with profit to the profession. They were characterized 
by industrious research, penetrating observation and profound 
reflection. This club, which was the first medical organization 
west of the mountains to enjoy anything but an ephemeral exist- 
ence, was founded in 1864 by Dr. Fleming, together with eight 
other medical gentlemen, and had a continuous and active life 
of nearly twenty-one years. It was not only serviceable in 
8 promoting scientific inquiry, and a laudable esprit de corps in its 
own membership, but its successful example stimulated the 
formation of other similar organizations, and, as the mother of 
the Allegheny County Medical Society, it will always be 
accorded an honorable place in our medical annals. In the dis- 
cussions which followed the reading of papers in the Bedford 
Club, Dr. Fleming's remarks, embodying as they did the 
reflections of a sagacious and earnest observer upon a rich and 
well-digested experience, were invariably heard with respectful 
attention. 
His intercourse with his medical brethren, whether in or out 
of the consultation room, was marked by a refined courtesy 
which respected the spirit as well as the letter of our code of 
ethics, and his pecuniary contributions to medical objects were 
given with no grudging hand. He possessed the affectionate 
confidence of his patients to a very unusual degree, especially of 
those who had known him long enough to penetrate the reserve 
of manner which concealed a deeply sensitive nature. They 
appreciated him not only as a conscientious and thoroughly 
equipped physician, but as a kind and sympathizing friend. 
He always shrank from taking a prominent part in municipal 
affairs, but he took a lively interest in the welfare of the com- 
munity, and his public spirit was attested by the untiring assi- 
duity with which he devoted himself in season and out of season 
to the splendid work of the Sanitary Commission during the 
eventful years of the war. 
A few intimate friends for many years used to meet around 
Dr. Fleming's hospitable hearthstone on one evening in the 
week, when the winged hours sped in conversation on any topic, 
literary, scientific, philosophical or what not that might be sug- 
gested. On these occasions the host showed a rare skill in 
eliciting the opinions of others, drawing, only when the need 
became apparent, on his own ample stores for an illuminating 
fact or idea. On these occasions, too, his keen sense of humor 
was evidenced at times, and many a mirth-provoking anecdote, and 
many an amusing word picture of odd characters at home and 
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9 elsewhere, illustrated with an exceptional knack of mimicry, 
will linger long in the memories of those who heard them. 
Visiting friends of the guests were warmly welcomed, and a 
special interest was not infrequently imparted to these gatherings 
by the presence of men who had achieved distinction in the 
fields of art, science, invention, travel and literature. Such men 
recognized the host as a kindred spirit, and many of them have 
testified to the depth of the loss sustained by them in his death. 
In 1874 the Doctor married Mrs. Eliza Thaw Lyon, who 
survives him. His domestic life, an ideally happy one, is thus 
alluded to by a writer competent to describe it: " It was in the 
home circle that the bright joyousness of the Doctor's nature 
drew its full breath. Those cherished ties came late in life, but 
how, in an intensity of happiness, they made up for the emptier 
years of single life ! He was friend, counsellor and guardian 
to those with whom these ties connected him, and there are 
aching hearts to-day that scarcely dare whisper the loss that has 
come to them." To these mourning ones, and to all who knew 
him, he has left a fructifying heritage of good deeds, and the 
stimulating example of an earnest and stainless life. 
Like Ian Maclaren's inimitable Dr. Maclure, Dr. Fleming was 
too busy giving aid to the sick and suffering to be conspicuous 
for his attention to religious forms, but, like the hero of the 
Bonnie Briar Bush, he had an ear " attuned to celestial har- 
monies." And this sketch, perhaps, cannot be more fitly closed 
than with the words quoted by him in the hearing of a friend, 
who sat one night some years ago by his bedside during a severe 
attack of illness. After hours of pain and sleeplessness, as the 
tired lids at last began to droop, and the weary head sank back 
upon the pillow, he softly murmured the exquisite utterance of 
the inspired poet: 
"He giveth His beloved sleep." 
10 JOSEPH ALBREE. 
The Standard History of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1898. 
The ordinary life of a physician of extended practice in a large 
city, while not usually marked by startling events attracting the 
attention of the public, is nevertheless one taking a most 
important place in the lives of most men, for there are often 
times when the happiness, the means of livelihood, indeed, the 
entire future of the families, depend upon the ability and 
devotion of the physician. It is not surprising that the faithful 
physician justly claims, and ordinarily receives from those 
patients who have any true appreciation of the great responsi- 
bility devolving upon him, their respect, confidence and affection. 
While the main events of the life of Dr. Andrew Fleming can 
be stated in a few lines, it would be very difficult to record and 
give any correct idea of the great number of homes he brightened 
and cheered, or of the many valuable lives lengthened by his 
assiduous care during a laborious practice of over forty years. 
There are but few families in this vicinity that he attended, the 
members of which do not gratefully recall instances where the 
lives of dear ones were saved by his ministrations. 
Andrew Fleming was born in Pittsburgh, July 3d, 1830. 
After reading medicine with Dr. Joseph P. Gazzam, he continued 
his medical studies at the Jefferson Medical School in Phila- 
delphia in 1853, and was graduated there with honor in 1855. 
Immediately upon receiving his degree, he was elected Resident 
Physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, where he 
served a term of eighteen months. Very soon after his entrance 
on the duties, he was appointed to the responsible position of 
druggist in place of one who had served in that capacity for 
twenty-five years. In the spring of 1857 he began to practice 
in Pittsburgh, associating himself with Dr. Joseph P. Gazzam, 
11 his old preceptor, on Sixth avenue, a partnership which was 
very soon terminated by the retirement and death of Dr. Gazzam. 
Dr. Fleming remained in the same location until 1888, when he 
built a beautiful, convenient residence on Western avenue, in 
Allegheny. He was married November 24th, 1874, to Eliza 
Thaw Lyon, who survives him. 
He died at Magnolia, Mass., on August 18th, 1896, of a 
sudden severe attack of intestinal obstruction. His body was 
brought home and interred in the Allegheny Cemetery, August 
22d, 1896. It was sad that his death should have occurred just 
at the beginning of the summer vacation, when he hoped for the 
rest and recreation that would the better prepare him for his 
arduous duties. Few men have passed into the other life with 
a fuller record of daily good deeds done than Dr. Andrew 
Fleming. 
Starting in his profession well prepared for the duties involved, 
he was unusually successful in gaining rapidly an extensive and 
lucrative practice, and in taking a place among the first physi- 
cians of the State. His practice soon reached a point where he 
was obliged to restrict it territorially, and to refuse to go beyond 
certain limits. Always exceedingly regular in his habits of life, 
and paying the strictest attention to his own health, the con- 
tinued labor and constant strain resulted in a dangerous illness 
of some months' duration in 1881. Absolute rest and a sojourn 
in Europe restored perfect health, and he learned, before it was 
too late, that there is a limit to human exertion, even in a 
good cause. 
As a student he was remarkable for two traits that charac- 
terized him during his entire life-thoroughness and accuracy. 
His systematic habits of study and his patient persistence not only 
enabled him to grasp the main principles of medical science, but 
to so make himself master of all the details that he could apply 
them practically. Heartily and enthusiastically devoted to his 
profession, he was above all things a physician. Naturally 
endowed with a power of quick observation, accuracy of eye 
and dexterity of hand, he diagnosed correctly and operated 
12 rapidly and neatly. Until the day of his death, he was an 
earnest and laborious student of medicine. Keeping himself 
fully informed of all that was being discovered anywhere in the 
gread medical world-carefully investigating for himself any 
newly suggested remedies and improved modes of surgery ; 
reading and speaking the modern continental languages almost 
as readily as his own, nothing that transpired in the medical 
centers of Europe escaped his attention. Holding steadfastly 
to the fundamental principles of medical science-intolerant only 
of ignorance and quackery-he heartily greeted, and after most 
searching examination, adopted, any discovery that would relieve 
pain or cure disease. He was always prepared for emergencies 
and fertile in-resources. If the most perfect appliance for any 
special purpose was not to be had at the moment, his mechanical 
dexterity and ready hands immediately provided a useful substi- 
tute from materials at hand. None but his patients can tell how 
suffering was relieved and comfort increased by his attention to 
the little things, so essential to the rest of the nervous, wearied 
invalid. He was anxious, not only to make his patient well, 
but to make him as comfortable as possible. His bright, cheery 
face was like sunlight in the sick room. His personal presence, 
his gentle touch and musical voice, were as efficacious as medi- 
cine. Regarding him intellectually, Dr. Fleming was strong and 
broad. He not only knew what he knew, but he knew for a 
definite purpose, for a practical end. 
Outside of the domain of social gossip, for which he had no 
taste, he seemed to follow the injunction of the son of Sirach : 
" Be not ignorant of anything in a great matter or a small." 
His love of his profession, and the enthusiasm with which he 
pursued it, were apparent to every one who enjoyed his acquaint- 
ance ; and whatever books or experience could teach him, he 
was always eager to learn and to store up for use. As his mind 
was of a notably scientific cast, he was highly interested in all 
scientific subjects, and no discovery in the range of science, no 
novel or ingenious speculation of a scientific character, escaped 
his notice. 
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13 In referring to Dr. Fleming's literary work, the cause for 
regret is that his professional duties allowed him but little leisure 
for that he did so well. Among his published papers may be 
mentioned the monograph " Blood Stains," prepared at the 
request of, and dedicated to Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin 
M. Stanton-a clear exposition of a most difficult and intensely 
practical subject-a paper which is still regarded as authoritative. 
Another most exhaustive paper on " Antero-Lateral Sclerosis," 
read before the Pennsylvania Medical Society, and extensively 
published, was valuable to the profession not only as the result 
of his own observation- and practice, but as a complete summary 
of all that had been discovered by the most eminent physicians 
in France and Germany, whose original notes and papers Dr. 
Fleming, by great personal exertion and at considerable pecuniary 
cost, had secured. 
In his brochure on " Emotional Fever" (1879), the clinical 
description was so clear and precise that the disease could be 
readily recognized, although its manifestation was in the narrow 
borderland separating purely physical disease from mental 
alienation. To the Bedford Club-composed of the best physi- 
cians of Pittsburgh and Allegheny-he contributed about forty 
papers, highly esteemed by his associates. They were prepared 
with the utmost care, always conveyed original information with 
a precision of statement and an accuracy of detail that indicated 
a complete knowledge and mastery of his subject. His fellow 
members of that club say that his remarks and criticisms on the 
papers of others were characterized by a gentle, courteous spirit 
of generous commendation where deserved, but marked by a 
correctness of statement and a clearing away of the difficulties 
of the question under discussion, while at the same time avoid- 
ing any disputation or any remarks having the slightest tinge of 
acrimony or personal feeling. One of the oldest members thus 
writes : " I think every member was indebted to Dr. Fleming, 
not a little, for the light and wider field that his prelections 
secured for us, by their accurate survey and observation." 
A marked trait in his conduct, not only with his conferees, 
14 but patients, and every one with whom he came in contact, was 
his unfailing and uniform courtesy. In his intercourse with the 
members of the medical profession he manifested a delicate sense 
of the relations existing between those whose sole aim was the 
good of humanity. His quick perception and cordial recogni- 
tion of ability and merit in those younger in years, and not so 
skillful or experienced as himself, was prompt and genuine. 
Such expressions of approval were the more valued because he 
was naturally reserved and reticent, never speaking a word of 
praise unless he felt that it was deserved. 
Early in the war, in 1861, a Soldiers' Home was opened near 
the Union station, in Pittsburgh, by the Subsistence Committee, 
to care especially for the multitudes of sick and wounded 
soldiers on their homeward journey. Dr. Fleming was at this 
Home, on the arrival of the trains, every noon and every mid- 
night, dressing the wounds of the sufferers and prescribing medi- 
cine for the sick. As the number of soldiers needing attention 
was from twenty-five to one hundred each noon and midnight, 
these merciful ministrations took from one to three hours of his 
valuable time, but during the four years of the war he rarely 
failed to make the two daily visits. 
Aside and apart from all that made Dr. Fleming an ideal 
physician, there was the other phase of life and character more 
difficult to portray, because it was so personal and distinctive in 
all its traits. Indeed, his own conception of what was required 
for the profession was so high, broad and all-embracing, that he 
was constantly striving to attain a complete knowledge of all 
related science. In every department of scientific research-be 
it archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, zoology, any branch 
of physics, the main principles, the latest discoveries and the 
present status of each, were so accurately stored in his wonderful 
memory that they were immediately available. Eminently 
practical as he was, he cultivated a love of the beautiful in art, 
and had a thorough acquaintance with the best pictures and 
statues in the European collections. A perfect rendition of the 
masterpieces of music was to him a source of the keenest pleasure. 
15 Few,, even of his intimate friends, had any true idea of the 
lavish generosity that marked his daily life. Not only did he 
give freely of his rich stores of medical skill, but his open purse 
provided for the wants of those in need. Often his benefactions 
were so secretly and delicately conveyed that the recipients 
knew not the source of the gifts. 
His reticence and reserve regarding anything relating to him- 
self were so great-his repugnance to the mere mention of his 
name in the public prints was so strong-his hatred of what he 
considered an intrusion upon the privacy of his personal life was 
so marked-that the rich, rare and varied qualities so constantly 
manifested in his daily life are matters too sacred for public record. 
So suddenly came his death, that the many who knew and 
loved him could not realize that the kind friend and " the 
beloved physician " had passed from his labors and entered 
upon that blessed rest which follows a life of beneficence and 
love. 
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