. Annals of medical history. a faded photograph, fixed on the outsidecover, of himself and his wife. I am now sendingyou this book, with the request that you willhand it to the librarian to be placed on someshelf of the library, where it will remain as amemento to Dr. Hodgkin. It will remind thereader, also, of the course of his life after he badefarewell to Guys, when he lost the promotion An Interesting Fkiendship Thomas Hodgkin and Sik Moses Montefiohe 383 which he so much coveted. During the time hewas curator he was clean-shaven, and thereforehis protrait which you gave the Gazette was th
. Annals of medical history. a faded photograph, fixed on the outsidecover, of himself and his wife. I am now sendingyou this book, with the request that you willhand it to the librarian to be placed on someshelf of the library, where it will remain as amemento to Dr. Hodgkin. It will remind thereader, also, of the course of his life after he badefarewell to Guys, when he lost the promotion An Interesting Fkiendship Thomas Hodgkin and Sik Moses Montefiohe 383 which he so much coveted. During the time hewas curator he was clean-shaven, and thereforehis protrait which you gave the Gazette was themost opposite; but he afterwards wore a beard,which, I think, very much improved photograph of him at this time I also send youto be placed with some other mementos t)f theGuys staff and professors. I cannot say what first brought about theclose association of our hospital with the Monte-fiorc family, but in my early student days ayoung man, named Nathaniel Montefiore, cameas a \olunteer to study medical subjects, and. Thomas Hodokin, more especially, physiology, so that some yearsafterwards he used to come down to Dr. Pavyslaboratory and see his experiments in connectionwith diabetes. He rented a room in the smallhouse of the porter at the lodge, namedArcher. It was situated, if I remember rightly, inSt. Thomas Street, at the back of the cornerhouse, near the old burial ground behind thechapel. Montefiore was evidently very popularwith the students, who used to call him believe his sister married a Goldsmid, but ofthis I am not sure; she having died early, achilds hospital was built to her memory in theSouthwark Bridge Road, and called after her name E\elina. I believe the first members ofthe staff which were appointed were Guys years afterwards Montefiore had a verypromising son; he, unfortunately, died young,which was a great distress to his father, andno doubt, it was, in fact, the reason why hesuccumbed to some abdominal disease. I wascalled to s
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