The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
PHYSICIANS FORTUNES.
Large Estates Left by Medical Men
 Last Words of Famous Doctors.

Nothnagel, who died alone in his room, noted his own symptoms to the last. A letter to his assistant Is said to have ended as follows: Writer, late on the evening of July 6, just af- ter experiencing these severe attacks died of calcification of the arteries" Traube also made cbserv- atiqns on himself to the very end. Lo- cock expressed wish to be present at the post-mortem examination on him- self; and among Cuvier's last recorded words Is a remark, as his fingers twitched involuntarily Charles Bell is right; Ce sont les nerfs dc la volonte Nui sont maladifs.' " Dyoe Davidson, professor at Aberdeen, died imrnedf- rately after saying to his class, speak Idng of the next meeting, which was never to take place, -Four o'clock on Monday gentlemen; 4 o'clock"
 Several doctors have taken their leave with blessing to those around them. Astley Cooper's last recorded words are, God bless you and good. by to you alll' He had previously said to his physicians. Bright and Cham bers, Gods will be done; Ged bless you bothl' adding, 'rYou must excuse
 me, but I shall take no more medI- cine" Benjamin Brodie was hearl to mutter: After all, God is very good" The saddest of all recorded last words are probably those of Oli- yer Goldsmith, who, when asked by his physician if his mind was at ease eaid No, it is not!' On the other hand, William Hunters mind seems to have been full of bright thoughts at the moment of death, for he said; If I could hold a pen, what 8 book l could write."
 Pasteur and Darwin, though not be- longing to the medical profession, are tast words were, T am not the least afraid to die" Pasteur was offered a cup of milk, and, being unable to swallow it, murmured, T cannot" He passed away with one hand in his wife's, the other grasping crucif1x. Lastly are mentioned the last words of Mirabeau, which are said to have been addressed to 9 doctor. He wrote on a slip of paper which he gave to his physician, the philosopher Cabanis the single word 'Dormir." Another account. which may be an expanded tversion of this, is that, after begging for an anodyne, he said reproachfully to the doctor, Were you not my phy- sician and my friend? Did you not promise to spare me the suffering of such death? Must I go away car- rying with me the regret of having confded in you?" This is rather a dong and rhetorical speech for a dy- ing man.
 It Is given to few men of any pro- fession to accumulate such large for dunes as the late Lord Brampton and MT. Murphy, K. c. have left behind them--fortunes amounting to 141,OO0 pounds and 234,00O pounds respec- { lively; but to say, as stated by con- temporary, that such an achievement Js only possible in the law is scarcely jn accordance with the facts. Three
 medical men ct least have left es- tates still larger than the greater of these Thirty years ago Dr. Blundell died worth more than a third ,of a million pounds-more exactly. 350,O00 pounds; during his fifty-three years of strenuous professional life Sir William Ienner accumulated the enormous sum of S75,0O0 pppnds, though it is doubtful if he ever made more than 12,000 pounds in any year; and Sir William Gull left personally valued at $40, 900 pounds. Dr, T R. Armitage died, at sixty-six, worth 217OO0 pounds; Sir Erasmus Wilson left i264,OOO pounds, behind him, and Sir Andrew Clarlx's savings reached 204,- | poo pounds.-British Medical Journal,