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Show 1 MADE MUCH MONEY LARGE ESTATES LEFT BY PRO-FES8IONAL PRO-FES8IONAL MEN. Record, Show Immense Fortunes Accumulated by Doctors, Lawyers and Writers Deathbed Scene of Persons of Prominence. Notunagcl, who died nlono In his room, noted his own symptoms to tho last, says tho British Medical Journal. A letter to his assistant Is said to have ended as follows: "Written lato on tho evening of July 6, Just after ex periencing theso severe nttacks died of calcification of tho arteries." arter-ies." Traubo also made observations on himself to tho very end. Locock expressed a wish to bo present at tho postmortem examination on himself, nd among Cuvler's last recorded words Is a remark, as his fingers twitched involuntarily: "Charles I3oll Is right: 'Co sont leg ncrfs do la vol-onto vol-onto qui sont maladifs.' " Dyce David-son, David-son, professor at Aberdeen, died immediately im-mediately after saying to his cIbbs, speaking of tho next meeting, which was nover to tako place: "Four o'clock Monday, gentlemen; four o'clock." Sovoral doctors have taken their leave with a blessing to those around them. Astley Cooper's last recorded words are: "God bless you and good-by good-by to you all!" Ho had previously said to his physicians, Drlght and Chambers: Cham-bers: "God's will bo done; Ood bless you both!" adding: "You must excuso me, but I shall take no moro medicine." medi-cine." Uenjamln Urodlo was heard to mutter: "After all, God is efy Rood." The saddest of all recorded last words are probably thoso of Oliver Goldsmith, who, when nsked by his physician If his mind was at rest, said: "No, it Is not!" On tho other hand, William Hunter's mind seems to have been full of bright thoughts at the moment of death, for ho said: "If I could hold n pen, what a book I could write!" Pasteur and Darwin, though not belonging be-longing to the medical profession, aro venerated by its teachers. Darwin's last words were: "I am not tho least afraid to die." Pasteur was offered a cup of milk, and, being unable to swallow It, murmured: "I cannot." He passed away with one hand In his wife's, the o''er grasping a crucifix. Lastly are mentioned the last words of Mirabeau, wlilch are said to have .been addressed to a doctor. He wrote on a slip of paper which he gavo to his physician, the philosopher Cabanis, the single word "Dormlr." Another account, which may be an expanded version of this, Is that, after begglrg for an anodyne, he said reproachfully to tho doctor: "Were you not my physician and my friend? Did you not promise to spare mo the suffering of such a death? Must I go carrying jB away regrets of having confided In ' you?" This is rather a long and rhetorical rhe-torical speech for a dying man. It Is given to few men of any profession pro-fession to accumulate such largo foi-tunes foi-tunes as the lato Lord Brampton n:itl Mr. Murphy, K. C, liavo left behind them fortunes amounting to 141,-000 141,-000 and 234,000 respectively; but to say, as stated by a contemporary, that such an achievement Is only possible in the law Is scarcely in accordance with the facts. Three medical men at least have left estates still larger than tho greater of these. Thirty years ago Dr. Dlundell died worth moro than a third of a million pounds more exactly ex-actly 350,000; during his 53 years of strenuous professional life Sir William Wil-liam Jenner accumulated the enormous enor-mous sum of 375,000, though it Is doubtful It he ever made more than 12,000 in any year; and Sir William Wil-liam Gull left personalty valued at 340,000. Dr. T. It. Armltage died at tiC, worth 217,000; Sir Erasmus Wll-, Wll-, son left 264,000 behind him, and Sir Andrew Clark's savings reached 204,000. |