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Show . I'.l ll am IWI irwTIWWMMMWWWMWMBMMMMMB MADE MUCH MONEY LARGE E8TATES LEFT BV PRO-FES8IONAL PRO-FES8IONAL MEN. Records Show, Immense Fortunes Accumulated by Doctors, Lawyers and Writers Deathbed 8cenes of Persons of Prominence. Kotlinagcl, who died alone lu Ills room, noted hla own symptoms to the Inst, says the British Medical Journal. A letter to his assistant Is said to hao ended as follows: "Written lato on the oventng of July 6, Just after experiencing ex-periencing these severe attacks , died of calcification of tho arteries." arter-ies." Trnubo also made observations on himself to tho very end. Lucock expressed a wish to bo present nt the postmortem examination 'on himself, and among Cuvler's last recoidcd words Is n remark, as his Angers twitched Involuntarily: "Charles Bell is right: 'Co sont los nerfs do la vol-onto vol-onto qui sont maladlfs.' " Dyco Davidson, David-son, profcss&r at Aberdeen, died Immediately Im-mediately ufter saying to his class, speaking of tho next meeting, which was never to tako place: "Four o'clock Monday, gentlemen; four o'clock." Sovcral doctors have taken their leave with a blessing to those nround them. Astlcy Cooper's last recorded words are: "God bless you and good-by good-by to you nil!" Ho bad previously said to his physicians. Bright and Chambers: Cham-bers: "God's will bo done; God bless you both!" nddlng: "You must excuso mo, but I shall take no moro medicine" medi-cine" Benjamin Brodla was heaid to mutter: "After nil, God Is- very good." Tho saddest of all recorded last words aro probably thoso of Oliver Goldsmith, who, when asked by his physician If his mind was at rost, said: "No, It la not!" On tho other band, William Hunter's mind hccins to have been full of bright thoughts at the moment of death, for he said: "If I could hold a pen, what a book I could write!" Pastour and Darwin, though not belonging be-longing to tho medical profession, arc venerated by Its teachers. Darwin's last words wore: "1 am not the least afraid to die." Pastor.- was offered a cup of milk, and, being unablo to swallow it, murmured: "I cannot." He passed away with ono hand In hbi wife's, tho other grasping a crucifix. Lastly aro mentioned the last words of Mlrabeau, which are said to have been addressed to a doctor. He wrote on a slip of paper which ho gave to his physician, the philosopher Cabanls, tho single word "Dormlr." Another account, which may bo an expanded version of this Is that, after begging for an anodyne, ho said reproachfully to the doctor: "Were you not my physician and my 'friend? Did you not promise to spare mo the sufforlng of such a death? Must I go carrying away regrets of having confided in you?" This Is rather a long nnd rhetorical rhe-torical speech for a dying mnn. It Is given to few men of any profession pro-fession to accumulate such- large fortunes for-tunes ns tho late Lord Brampton and Mr. Murphy, K. C, havo left behind them fortunes amounting to JCIH,-000 JCIH,-000 and 234,000 respectively; but to say, as stated by a contemporary, that j such an achievement Is only posslblo In tho law Is scarcely In accordance with tho focts. Thieo medical men at least have left estates still larger I than tho greater of these. Thirty years ' ago Dr. Blundcll died worth more than a third of a million pounds more exactly ex-actly 350,000; during ills G3 years of strenuous professional life Sir William Wil-liam Jenner accumulated tho enormous enor-mous sum of 375,000, though it is doubtful If he over made more than 12.000 In any year; and Sir William Wil-liam Gull loft personalty valued nt ? 10,000. Dr. T. II. Armltago died at 66, worth 217,000; 8lr Erasmus Wilson Wil-son left 2GC,000 behind him, and Sir Andrew Clark's savings reached 204,000. |