Medical Profession. Patient Questioning of Nature's Ways, The

LORD LISTER’S FUNERAL. 527 why a considerable proportion of this should not go to the funeral of Queen Mary in 1694, broke in upon the silence medical profession. from the organ. Tnis was followed by Cnopin’s "Marche Maternity bcnefit.-In estimating remuneration on a capita- Funebre," and finally trombones, stationed high up in the tion basis per insured person, some part of the payment triforium, played the Tres Equali of Beethoven. Then from maternity benefit should be excluded, since it will be came, faintly at first, the voices of the choir singing the paid in many cases in respect of persons outside the hymn "Brief life is here our portion," as the coffin was 13,000,000. The Chancellor of the Exchequer estimated borne from the Chapel of St. Faith, where it had rested during that .8500,000 would go to the medical profession from this the previous night, to a high bier at the foot of the altar rails, source, but the grounds for this opinion were not stated. If surrounded by six burning candles. In the front of the fees are raised very much, societies may encourage their procession came the clergy, with the Dean of Westminster, members to obtain the services of midwives rather than Bishop Ryle, at their head. A magnificent wreath of orchids doctors. The profession should, however, secure a sub- and lilies, sent by the German Emperor, and deposited on stantial increase in the fees paid for attendance upon cases the coffin by the German Ambassador while it’ lay in to which they have been summoned under the Midwives Act St. Faith’s Chapel, was carried in front of the coffin. of 1902. Splendid wreaths were also displayed at the altar rails from _______________ I the Institut Pasteur of Paris, the Congress of German Surgeons, and the Medical Society of Amsterdam. The LORD LISTER’S FUNERAL. coffin was covered with a purple pall, and on it were laid Lord Lister’s three most distinguished orders-the Order ON Friday last, Feb. 16th, the body of the late Lord of Merit, the Prussian Order Pour le M(3fito. and the Lister, the greatest Englishman of his century, the master Grand Cross of the Order of the Danebrog. The pall- surgeon, was buried at Hampstead Cemetery near that of his bearers, in their various official robes, escorted the body. predeceased wife. So much his country, which would fain They were Lord Rayleigh, O.M., representing the Order of have done him the highest honour that lay in its power by Merit; Lord Rosebery, for the University of London ; Lord burial in the national Pantheon, was constrained to yield Iveagh, for the Lister Institute; Sir Archibald Geikie, to his own personal wishes. But it claimed at least the pre- President of the Royal Society ; Sir Donald MacAlister, rogative of first paying final homage by a solemn memorial Principal of Glasgow University ; Sir Watson Cheyne, Bart., service in the historic great Abbey of Westminster. For for King’s College, London; Mr. Rickman J. Godlee, Presi- Lister was a maker of history, not for England only, but dent of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; and for the human race. No personal skill as a surgeon, however Professor F. M. Caird, for Edinburgh University. Imme- great, could have gained for him the homage and gratitude of diately following were the principal mourners, consisting the entire world. It was the keen observation, the years of of Mrs. Lister, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lister, Dr. A. H. patient questioning of Nature’s ways, the illuminating Lister, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Lister, Miss Lister, Miss insight, the patient demonstration that finally enabled him to E. M. Lister, Miss G. Lister, Dr. and Mrs. A. G. lay a firm foundation for the surgical art-never to be super- Phear, Mrs. R. J. Godlee, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lister Godlee, seded no matter what developments in superstructure it may Mr. and Mrs. A Godlee, Mr. F. Godlee, General Burn, Mr. be called on to sustain-that called forth the splendid tribute T. Godlee, Miss Godlee, Mr. J. Harold Pim, Mrs. Goodbody, of reverence to the remains of Lord Lister from rulers and Miss Pim, Miss C. Pim, Mr. A. Lister Harrison, the Right nations, from the scientists and savants of the earth, and Hon. J. W. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Alhright, Mr. and Mrs. from representatives of every rank and class in life among his C T. Barclay, and Mr. Ernest Beck. The Lord Mayor of own countrymen. London (Sir Thomas Crosby, M.D.) and the Lord Provost of Before 1 P.M. the lantern and choir of Westminster Abbey Edinburgh came next, and were followed by the official were filled with official representatives, and a goodly portion delegates from various scientific and learned societies. The of the general public occupied the north transept and aisle French Academy of Science sent its President (Professor and the nave. The King was represented by Sir Frederick Lippmann), and also Professor Chauveau and Professor Dastre; Treves, Queen Alexandra by Sir Francis Laking, and Princess the Institut Pasteur of Paris sent Professor Roux; the French Louise (Duchess of Argyll) by Mr. Oswald Balfour. The Academy of Medicine, Professor Pozzi; the German Congress Prime Minister in person offered the tribute of the nation of Surgeons its President (Professor Garr6) ; the Société de at large. Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, and Chirurgie de Paris, Sir Victor Horsley ; and the Medical Russia sent their Ambassadors ; Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Society of Amsterdam, Professor Treub. The Royal Society Sweden, Norway, and Portugal their Ministers ; the Chinese of London sent its treasurer, Sir Alfred Kempe ; its secre- Minister was represented by Dr. Wu Lien-Teh ; and Servia taries, Sir Joseph Larmor, M.P., and Sir John Rose Bradford; by its Charge d’Affaires. The Government was represented and its foreign secretary, Sir William Crookes, O.M. ; while the of sent James Dewar. The through the Medical Departments of the Local Government i Royal Society Edinburgh Sir Board and the Board of Education, the Army and Navy Royal College of Physicians of London sent its President, Medical Services, and the West African Medical Staff. Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart.; its Senior Censor, Dr. J. Mitchell representatives of scientific bodies, foreign as well as Bruce ; its Registrar, Dr. J. A. Ormerod ; and Sir Richard British, were present; the Swedish Academy of Science, the Douglas Powell, Bart. The Royal College of Surgeons of Norwegian Society of Science, the Madrid Academy of England sent its Vice-Presidents, Mr. C. W. Mansell Moullin Medicine, the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Imperial and Mr. C. T. Dent ; that of Edinburgh, its President, Mr. Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, the British Academy, G. T. Berry; and that of Ireland, its President, Mr. R. H. the Royal Institution, the British Science Guild, the R)yal Woods. The delegates from the University of London were Institute of Public Health, the Hunterian, Royal Micro- Sir Edward Busk (chairman of Convocation), Sir H. Miers scopical, and Zoological Societies, and Kew Gardens, in addi- (Principal), and Sir Philip Magnus, M.P. ; from the University tion to those enumerated below which sent special delegates of Edinburgh, Professor Alexis Thomson; and from the to the procession. The Royal Colleges of Surgeons and of University of Glasgow, the Lord Rector, Mr. Birrell. Other Physicians of the three kingdoms and the Society of delegates were Sir Henry Morris, President of the Royal Apothecaries were represented, as was every University in Society of Medicine ; Mr. Edmund Owen, for the British Great Britain and Ireland, the medical societies, the Edin- Medical Association ; Sir William Ramsay, President of the burgh and Glasgow University Clubs, the Merchant Taylors’ British Association; the Bishop of Exeter, Principal the Company, Epsom College, University College of South Rev. A. C. Headlam, D.D., and Professor J. M. Thomson, Wales, the constituent colleges of the University of London, F.R S., for King’s College, London; Sir David Ferrier and the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and the general and Dr. Nestor Tirard for King’s College Hospital. University special hospitals and medical schools of London, Oxford, College sent its Provost, Dr. Gregory Foster ; and University Edinburgh, and Glasgow. College Hospital Medical School its Dean, Mr. Raymond The scene in the Abbey during the interval of waiting was Johnson. truly impressive. A spirit of reverence dwells within those The service was brief but impressive. After the Ninetieth lofty grey walls, and in very truth it hovered over the entire Psalm, .DoMt, Refugitl1n Nost-ritni, had been chanted by the congregation there gathered together. The silence was pro- choir to Purcell’s music, and the lesson from I. Corinthians, found. Notwithstanding a continuous stream of newcomers xv., had been read by the Dean, the choir sang Handel’s ’hardly a sound could be heard, and the demeanour of all was When the ear heard Him," the concluding sentence of grave. Presently Parcell’s exquisite music, composed for the which-" His body is buried in peace, but his name liveth 528 OFFIC(AL MANUAL OF CAUSES OF DEATH. evermore "-was splendidly appropriate. Goss’s anthem, England and Wales complete uniformity will be obtained by 11 I heard a voice," followed, and after the prayers had been the adoption of the standard list at Somerset House and recited by the Precentor, and the hymn, "0 God, our help Whitehall respectively, and the use of the same list will in ages past," had been sung by the congregation, the doubtless be required in the reports of all medical officers of procession was reformed and the body borne on the way to health.

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