The gold-headed cane . red byDr. Baillie on his profession, and particularlyof his donation to the College, of which hewas so distinguished an ornament. In 1819 he presented to that body his en-tire collection of anatomical preparations, byfar the greater number of which had beenmade by his own hands, and from which hehad chiefly selected the splendid engravingsthat illustrated his work on Anatomy. He lived only four years after this donation,when his health gradually gave way, andthough a hope was entertained, that thefailure of his strength might be ascribed tothe fatigue of business, and th
The gold-headed cane . red byDr. Baillie on his profession, and particularlyof his donation to the College, of which hewas so distinguished an ornament. In 1819 he presented to that body his en-tire collection of anatomical preparations, byfar the greater number of which had beenmade by his own hands, and from which hehad chiefly selected the splendid engravingsthat illustrated his work on Anatomy. He lived only four years after this donation,when his health gradually gave way, andthough a hope was entertained, that thefailure of his strength might be ascribed tothe fatigue of business, and that retirementwould afford him relief, he sensibly andrapidly sunk, and died before he had com-pleted his sixty-third year. His bust is placed in the College of Phy-sicians, and the President, on the 22d Decem-ber, 1823, having announced the bequests con-tained in his will, consisting, amongst others,of his library, read the following observationson the medical character of his departed friendand colleague. BAILLIE. 245. The same principles which guided in his private and domestic life, gov-erned his public and professional was kind, generous, and sincere. Hispurse and his personal services were alwaysat the command of those who could prefer aproper claim to them; and every branch ofthe profession met with equal , such was his condescension, that he often * In the Censors Room. 246 BAILLIE. incurred great inconvenience to himself, by hispunctual observance of appointments with thehumblest practitioners. In consultation, he was candid and lib-eral in the highest degree; and so industriouslygave credit to the previous treatment of thepatient (if he could approve of it), that thephysician who called him in, never failed tofind himself in the same possession of the goodopinion of the family as he was before the cir-cumstances of the case had made a consulta-tion necessary. His manner of explaining the disease, andthe remedies recommended, was pec
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