The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-04-08
MADE MUCH MONEY
LARGE ESTATES LEFT BY PRO.
FEssioNAL MEN.
Records Show, Immense Fortunes
Accumulated by Doctors, Lawyers
and Writers-Deathbed Scenes
of Persons Of Prominence.


Nothnagel, who died alone in his
room. noted his own symptoms to the
last, says the British Medical Journal.
a letter to his assistant is said to have
ended as follows: Written late on
the evening of July 6, just after ex.
periencing these severe attacks
died of Qualification of the arter.
les Traube also made observations
on himself to the very end Locock
expressed wish to be present at the
postmortem examination on himself,
and among Cuvier's last recorded
words is a remark, as his fingers
twitched involuntarily: Charles Bell
is right: 'Ce sont les nerfs de la vol.
onte qui sont maladifs.'" Dyce David.
son, professor at Aberdeen, died i'm.
mediately after saying to his class,
speaking of the next meeting, which
was never to take place: -Four o'clock
Monday. gentlemen; four o'clock
Several doctors have taken their
leave with blessing to those around
them. Ashley Cooper's last recorded
words are: God bless you and good.
by to you ALL" He had previously said
to his physicians. Bright and Cham.
bers: Gods will be done; God bless
you both" adding You must excuse
me, but | shall take no more medi.
cine" Benjamin Brodie was heard
to mutter: After all, God is very
good" The saddest of all recorded
last words are probably those Of Oliver
Goldsmith, who, when asked by his
physician If his mind was at rest,
said: mo, 1t is mott" On the other
hand, William Hunters mind seems
to have been full OF bright thoughts
at the moment of death. for he said :
III could hold pen. what book
! could write!"
Pasteur and Darwin. though not be-
longing to the medical profession, are
venerated by It's teachers. Darwin s
last words were: 81 am not the least
afraid to die" Pasteu" was offered a
cup Of milk, and, being unable to
swallow 1t, murmured: Il cannot He
passed away with one hand in his
wife's, the other grasping a crucifix.
Lastly are mentioned the last words
Of Mirabeau, which are said to have
been addressed to doctor. He wrote
on slip OF paper which he gave to
his physician, the philosopher Cabanis,
the single word "Dormir." Another
account, which may be an expanded
version of this, is that, after begging
for an anodyne, he said reproachfully
: to the doctor: Were you not my
physician and my friend? Did you
not promise to spare me the suffering
of such death? Must I go carrying
away regrets of having confided In
you?" This is rather long and rhe-
torical speech for a dying man.
II Is given to few men of any pro.
fessiOn to accumulate such large for.
tunes as the late Lord Brampton and
Mr. Murphy, X. c.. have left behind
them-fOrtunes amounting to Gal.
900 and f234,00O respectively; but to
say, as stated by contemporary, that
such an achievement is only possible
In the law is scarcely in accordance
with the facts. Three medical men
at least have left estates still larger
than the greater of these. Thirty years
ago DR.. Blundell died worth more than
a third Of million pounds-more ex-
actly f350,000; during his SO years of
strenuous professional life Sir VII.
liam Jenner accumulated the enor.
nous sum of G375.000, though It is
doubtful II he ever made more than
E12,OOO In any year; and Sir vii.
liam Gull left personally valued at
f?i0,00O. DIR. T. r. Armitage died at
66. worth G2l7,000; Sir Erasmus VII.
son left f26i.000 behind him, and Sir
Andrew Clarks savings reached
G204 900.