The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-04-01
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.


Nothuagel, 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 AFTER
les Traube also made observations
on himself to the very end. Locock
expressed wish to be present at the
postmortem examination on himself,
snd among Cuviers 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 I 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: NO. II 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:
IF l could hold pen, what book
/ could write!"
Pasteur and Darwin, though not be.
longing to the medical profession. are
venerated by its teachers. Darwin's
last words were II am not the least
afraid to die" Pasteur was offered a
cup Of milk, and, being unable to
swallow 1t, murmured: II cannot" He
passed away with one hand in his
wife's. the o'Ner grasping crucifix.
Lastly are mentioned the last words
of Mirabeau. which are said to have
been addressed to doctor. He wrote
on a slip of paper which he gave to
his physician, the philosopher Cabanls,
the single word "Dormir." Another
account, which may be an expanded
version of this. Is that, after beggir g
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 | go carrying
away regrets of having conflded in
your" This is rather long and rhe.
tOrical speech for a dying man.
It Is given to few men of any pro.
fession to accumulate such large fot
tunes as the late Lord Brampton aod
Mr.. Murphy, X c., have left behind
them-fortunes amounting to E141,.
900 and G234.OOO 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
third Of million pounds-more ex.
actly G350,000; during his SO years OF
strenuous professional life Sir vii
liam Jenner accumulated the enor.
nous sum Of c375.00O, though 1t is
doubtful II he ever made more than
E12.000 in any year; and Sir VIII
liam Gull left personally valued al
E340.00O. DR.. T. r. Armitage died at
IS. worth G217,000; Sir Erasmus VIII
son left 9264,00O behind him, and Sir
Andrew Clarks savings reached
E204,00O.