Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-16
MADE MUCH MONEY
LARGE ESTATES LEFT BY PRO.
FEss,oNAL 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 AFTER
les Traube also made observations
on himself to the very end. Locock
expressed a wish to be present at the
postmortem examination on himself.
and among Cuvier's last recorded
words is a remark, as his fingers
twitched i%nvoluntarlly: Charles Bell
is right: 'Ce SON les nerfs de la vol
onte qui SOM %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 a 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.
bcrs: Gods will be done; God bless
you both,' adding: You must eXcus
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:
IF | could hold a pen, what a book
could write!"
Pasteur and Darwin, though not be
longing to the medical profession, are
venerated by its teachers. Darwin's
last words were: Il am not the least
afraid to die" Pasteur was offered a
cup of milk, and, being unable to
swallow 1t. murmured: 81 cannot He
passed away with inc hand in his
wife's, the other grasping a crucitix.
Lastly are mentioned the last words
of Miraboau, which are said to have
been addressed to a 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
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 a death? Must | go carrying
away regrets of having confided in
you?" This is rather a long and rhe
torical speech for a dying man.
1t 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 G141,
900 and G234,000 respectively; but tc
say, as stated by a contemporary, thai
such an achievement Is only possible
in the law Is scarcely In accordanc,
with the facts. Three medical mel
at least have left estates still larger
than the greater of these. Thirty years
6 DR.. Blundell died worth more thar
a third of n million p~ounds-more ex
actly G350,O00; during his SO years o
strenuous professional life Sir vii
liam Jenner accumulated the enor
nous sum of G375,0O0, though 1t II
doubtful If he ever made more thar
G12, 600 in any year; and Sir VII
liam Gull left personally valued a
G340,000. DIR. T. X. Armitage died a
66, worth G217,OOO; Sir Erasmus vii
son left e2G4, 900 behind him, and ST
Andrew Clark's savings reached
G2O4, 900.