Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22
Queen vIctOrIa's PLY ysician-sketch OF Sir
Hou-,r

Sir Henry Holland, physician in ordinary
to Her Majesty, the Queen, and who is at
present travelling in the suite of Lord Rem
frew, says the New York Horld, is GENTLE
man of great eminence in the medical pro-
fession. He was born at Knutsford Cheshire,
in lIs8, and was graduated at the University
of Edinburg in 1911. In 1872 he Travelled
extensively in Spain and Portugal, with the
object of gaining experience in the military
hospitals Of the British Army, then in the
Peninsula. He proceeded up the Tagus as
far as Santarem, and, as the capture of Bada-
jos had recently taken place, he found the
convent crowded with over 1000 sick aud
wounded soldiers, and he records the noble
character of the great Duke, as exhibited in
the active superintendent and particular
attention he gave to these hospitals, render
ing his career Of glory one, also, Of humanity.
He afterward visited Abrantes (another of
the chief hospital stations of the army) to-
gether with the two or three smaller hospitals
at Mia, and other places on the .rontier of
Spain.
"From thence" he sfterward wrote, 10
stormy passage of O week brought me to
Gibraltar; two days of this time our vessel
was in the Bay of Cadiz and each morning
and evening listened to the heavy sound OF
the shells, which the French mortars were
throwing into the city from distance of
more than three miles. 1t was their last
effort as q besieging army; information of
the battle of Salamanca had Just reached
them, and but few days elapsed before they
made their final retreat from the south of
Spain" From here Sir Henry went to Sicily,
and thence proceeded on tour through
Greece, of which, in 1915, he published an
admirable account, under the title of Travels
in the lonidn Isles, Albania, TheSsaly, Mace
donid, &c. While in the dominions of the
terrible vizier Ali Pasha, he became very
intimate with that extraordinary man-"the
man of war and woes,n whom Byron so
| vividly describes in Childe Harold. On learn
ing fhis arrival, Ali sent an escort with two
beautiful white horses superbly caparisoned,
and conducted by women and richly attired
Albanian soldiers to convey him to hispalace-
seraglio. The vizier earnestly and persist
emily begged Sir Henry to remain at the
capital, Joannina, as his physician, even if
but for single year, and with oriental mag
nificence, offered him any reward he could
ask for his services.
Sir Henry diagnosed the Vizier's maladies,
and prescribed for his relief but for reasons
highly honorable to his character as a friend
| of liberty firmly refused all his offers, upon
which Ali remarked that he must have much
money in England that he cared so little
about the immense offers made him. Dur
| ing his residence at Joannina, he was much
occupied in medical capacity, both among
the Turkish and Greek families of the city,
and among his patients was Yusuf Aga, the
old Moor of Tepeleni, who was then suffer-
ing from violent attack of pleurisy. Re-
turning, however, to his native country, Sir
Henry established himself in London. In
1852 he was appointed physician in ordinary
to the Queen and Prince-Consort, and in
| 1853 he was raised to the dignity of Baronet
His principal professional works are Medical
| Notes and Reflections, (Which have been re-
printed in the United States) and Chapters
on Mental Physiology, both of which are
characterized by great learning, originality
and Independence. In 1884 Sir Henry was
married. for the second time, to a daughter
Of Sidney Smith.