Perhaps, however, the greatest service Bennett rendered to medicine, independently of his promotion of the use of cod-liver oil in phthisis, is his strong protest against the lowering treatment in pneumonia and other inflammatory diseases. On this point the _Lancet_ (October 9, 1875) says: “He reduced the mortality of uncomplicated pneumonia to _nil_. He demonstrated, not only the dispensableness, but the injuriousness, of the antiphlogistic treatment which had ruled the best minds of the civilised world for ages. Doubtless other physicians were working in the same direction even before Bennett, but he devised a treatment of his own which has given most brilliant results, and he adhered to it and to the pathological views on which it was based so steadily and over so long a series of years as to establish its truth, and so largely revolutionise the practice of medicine in acute diseases.” Dr. Bennett’s later attacks on the mercurial treatment of liver diseases were almost equally strong with that on bleeding and the antiphlogistic methods, but being undertaken late in life did not leave such an impression. Dr. M’Kendrick gives in the _British Medical Journal_, October 9, 1875, a list of no fewer than 105 papers and memoirs by Bennett. Among his larger works were “An Introduction to Clinical Medicine;” “Lectures on Clinical Medicine,” 1850-6, which were entitled in later editions “Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine.” Of this his principal work, six editions were published during his lifetime in the United States, and the book has been translated into French, Russian, and Hindoo. “Outlines of Physiology” appeared in 1858, and a Text-book of Physiology in 1871-2. His works on Cancerous and Cancroid Growths, on the Pathology and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and on the Restorative Treatment of Pneumonia, will of course be consulted as containing authoritative statements of his views on these important subjects. He wrote the article on Phthisis in Reynolds’ “System of Medicine,” Reports on the Action of Mercury on the Liver, and Researches on the Antagonism of Medicines, as reports to the British Medical Association, 1867-1875. Dr. M’Kendrick, some time Bennett’s assistant and deputy, says of him:[16] “Professor Bennett was a man of clear and logical intellect. What he wanted in breadth of view he gained in penetrative power. Few could grasp more quickly the essentials of a subject, or perceive sooner or more accurately the real point at issue. _Method_ was the prevailing quality of his mind which guided him as a teacher.... He wanted patience with details, the power of positive scientific expression, and the faculty of taking a wide view of all the facts bearing on what was immediately under discussion. He assumed an attitude of scepticism to all questions until fairly convinced.”