“ This rare gentleness of nature was combined with an unbending attitude of as a member of a learned profession which no one misunderstood. Medicine in the eyes of this physician was a calling demanding the noblest qualities of the mind for its exercise. He urged continually on his students the value of clear thinking and cultivated expression ”

“ The sudden death of Sir Clifford Allbutt, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, which we announce on another page, removes one of the great figures of English medicine and an outstanding Cambridge personality. An accomplished clinician, a devoted teacher, his active contributions to medical knowledge and practice had won for him a reputation which was deservedly worldwide. ”

“ The ophthalmoscope is an instrument originally invented by the late Mr. Charles Babbage, but remained unknown until a modification of it was constructed by Helmholtz, and was restored to Babbage’s original form by Ruete. It permits visual examination of the interior of the eye; and, for the first time in the history of science, it rendered living nerves and blood-vessels open to inspection in situ. ”