Show Died Misunderstood I O X December 29 U Sir William imam the noted physician died at d Oxford England Though his Ilis pro professional fame rests upon his work ork as ns a 1 I investigator and teacher Dr is more familiarly known because of the tho association of his name with v the Iho theory that the greatest work of man num is done one I before eral cral if bo ho is 40 10 and that it would benefit society in gen gen- I chloroform were administered t ta to- all aU men on I their reaching the thc age 0 of oC CO GO j Ho IIo attained the ago age of f 70 himself and it is stated ibe last Insl ten years of his life formed a period of Teat great a ti ity and of ot his bis greatest influence f f 1 t During the last five years cars he lie devoted r with I great Teat vigor ygor to the thc now new problems thrust upon his t fc I l fe i ion n b by the war the var the treatment of ot shell shock prot pro- pro and other oilier nervous diseases trench diseases and tho the development devel devel- of better methods of treating wounds He lie was himself an nn outstanding example of a man luau doing great work and benefiting the world worM to tho the end of a 1 long life nn and l for ten years Jars after ho lie should have havo been reposing in in the calm embrace of death by the thet chloroform route according to his own sensational specific t As a n matter of fact he was 55 53 years ear old oM when ho lie delivered his Ins famous fa famous fn- fn address at th the Washington birthday exercises of oi the Johns Jolin Hopkins university at Baltimore which re ro reduced re to the crude formula was that a n. man was through at 40 and ought to fo o be chloroformed at GO CO It lt is is not announced that Dr Oilier was greatly shocked at the hue and cry caused by his utterance which was only intended to produce merriment amon among his au audience which was composed of many of the tho most eminent men in his profession most of whom had at att t that ha t time crossed the U deadline U be ho facetiously im ira ira- It is said it became necessary for him to deli deny the construction placed llac on his a address dress and to explain his joke again and again The Tho verb erb to ize came into being and anti he lie was regarded by the tho world orl cold blooded and generally as an advocate of tho the most inhuman of theories The episode caused him great chagrin for some years not only because of tho bloodthirsty bloodthirsty bloodthirsty blood blood- thirsty character he be became in popular estimation butmore but butmore more moro particularly on account of tho the dreadfully depressing depressing depress depress- ing jug effect his words seemed to have on scores of men of forty to sixt sixty nn and upwards The account of his death gives tho the famous speech in He lie be began n b by claiming that there thero had not been an 3 advance ance in the science of medicine which had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been initiated by comparatively young oun men and gave a lo long list of accomplishments of men under forty His whole argument was intended to emphasize a n. plea for tho the encouragement of young men mell Then Jio ho continued continued con con- tinned My Iy second fixed Idea Is tho the uselessness of ot men above CO 60 0 years ears of ot ago age and ond tho the Incalculable benefit It would bo ho boIn hoIn boIn In commercial in political and in professional mo lifo ir H It as asa asa a matter or ot course mon men dropped work at I that ng age D n tells us in his that by tho laws of ot certain wise states sexagenarians precipitated from a n. bridge and in Rome men inca of or that ago abO not admitted to f fra go In In that charming novel Tho Fixed Period Anthony discusses tho practical advantages nd in modern lifo or of a return to tho the ancient usage and the plot hinges es upon tho the admirable scheme chomo o of a n. collego college Into which atCO at atCO CO 61 men retired for a n year yc or of contemplation a 0 peaceful peace ful departure b by chloroform That Incalculable benefits might follow such a I scheme Is 15 apparent to anyone who liko myself is II nearing the limit and who had made mado n a careful cardul study 01 ct tao rno calamities which may befall during tho the seventh 80 and decades Still moro more when ho contemplates tho the many evils o which they perpetuate with Impunity A As A. Itcan itcan it itcan can be maintained that nl alt all tho great advances havo como from men under 0 40 BO so tho the history of ot tho the world shows that a very lar largo large o proportion of ot tho the evils may ho bc oo traced to tho the sexagenarians nearly nearly all ati tho tile great groat mistakes mis mis- mis 1 takes tal c politically and all of ot tho the worst poems poem most 0 or tho the bad bad pictures a n majority of ot tho the bail bad novels novel not a n. te few of ot tho the bad and ond speeches IS Inasmuch as Dr strove to make mako a jest which was FO so grossly misunderstood as to have havo been interpreted inter into a L mournful requiem ho lie himself has furnished furnished fur fur- rushed an excellent example of tho the fact that some somo men ought not to try to bo ho funny at fifty |