n which Sir Andrew is said to have seen
10,000 patients annually), immediately facing the chair where he always
sat, are the words: "Glory to God."

[Illustration: CENSORS' ROOM--COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
_From a Photo. by Mavor & Meredith_.]

With regard to his profession he was an enthusiast. He termed medicine
"the metropolis of the kingdom of knowledge," and in one of his
addresses to students, said: "You have chosen one of the noblest, the
most important, and the most interesting of professions, but also the
most arduous and the most self-denying, involving the largest sacrifices
and the fewest rewards. He who is not prepared to find in its
cultivation and exercise his chief recompense, has mistaken his calling
and should retrace his steps."

He had an ideal, and he did his utmost to live up to it. His words in
many instances did as much good as his medicine.

To explain what I mean I cannot do better than quote part of a letter
received since Sir Andrew's death, from a delicate, hardworking
clergyman, whom I have known some years. After speaking of Sir Andrew's
painstaking kindness, "never seeming the least hurried," he says: "He
had a wonderful way of inspiring one with confidence and readiness to
face one's troubles. I remember his saying once, 'It is wonderful how we
get _accustomed_ to our troubles,' and at another time, while
encouraging me to go on with work--reading for Orders: 'If one is to
die, it is better to die doing something, than doing nothing.' I have
often found that a help when feeling done-up and useless. In the old
days when people used to go and see him without an appointment, I have
often sat for hours in his dining-room, feeling so ill that I felt as if
I should die before I saw him, but after having seen him I felt as if I
had got a new lease of life. I was not at all hypochondriacal or
fanciful, I think, but that was the moral effect of an interview with
him. I believe he revolutionized the treatment of cases like mine, and
that he, to a certain extent, experimented on me; at any rate, he
treated me on philosophical principles, and told me often" (he went to
him for twenty years) "that I had become much stronger than he had
expected. He said to me several times: 'You are a wonderful man; you
have saved many lives.'"

[Illustration: ENTRANCE HALL--COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
_From a Photo. by Mavor & Meredith_]

This my correspondent understood to mean the experiments had been
successful.