Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / by A. Halliday Douglas, M.D.

  • Douglas, A. Halliday (Andrew Halliday), 1819-1908.
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[©1844?]
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Credit: Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / by A. Halliday Douglas, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    diligence, we must refer to it here again; for we certainly have known hut few who, with anything like equal powers, have at all rivalled his application. Whoever entered his study found him intent at work. Did they see him travelling in his carriage ?—they could perceive he was busy there. Graces also might be mentioned, such as a meekness and an entire dispassionateness, which are rarely, indeed, conjoined with such conscious strength and sensibility. He was, perhaps, generally thought reserved; and such, certainly, he was to strangers—sufficiently so to prove that his professional emi- nence bad been achieved by transcendent talent and worth alone. But among his familiar friends, how affable !—how engaging ! And while all that ever saw him must remember that look of power and placidness which was so prevailingly his that he carried it with him to the tomb, there was also another look very often seen, which was far more beautiful, because both elevated, serene, and bright, and of which we cannot but think, now, how surely it should have warned us, that to the heaven from whence he got it he would soon and suddenly be called. Amidst the universal distress and sadness of such a general and sore bereavement, we perhaps should not specify particular instances; and yet we cannot but refer to the surviving office-bearers and the congregation of St Andrew’s Free Church, who can never enter the house of God, without being reminded there both of the munificence and assiduity with which he ministered to the setting up and com- pletest furnishing of that beauteous sanctuary, and of his still deeper and more affecting interest as an overseer of their undying souls. With the minister of that church, besides, both he and his household had been for many years accustomed to worship; and he had been to him, both as a benefactor and a friend—even all that ever one man could be to another. He has left a numerous family, who were everything to him, and to whom he, too, was everything. The sympathy which is abroad they must feel to be alleviating; but infinitely more precious their assurance, from what they saw of their father’s “ heaven on earth,’” so long experienced, and so complete. “ The kingdom of God,” they must have seen, was “ within himand that each and all of those promises were peculiarly his which are fulfilled to the meek, and the merciful, and the peacemakers, and the pure in heart, of whom it is affirmed, that they shall see God. “ And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die