“His tendency to indulge freely in critical and sarcastic remarks upon the works of others did not make him a general favourite with some of his professional brethren, consequently he never attained a large practice as a consulting physician, which was from other considerations his due. He was too much a reformer, too pronounced and outspoken in his opinions; he had too much identified himself with certain lines of thought; and it must be confessed that he did not possess that indefinable manner which inspires confidence both in patient and in practitioner alike.” “By those who knew him best Dr. Bennett was much beloved. He shone in the social circle, where his love of music and power of brilliant conversation cast a radiance through the room.” In 1855 Bennett unsuccessfully competed for the chair of the Practice of Physic at Edinburgh, and he felt his non-success very much. For the next ten years he continued in active work, but in 1865 began to suffer severely from a bronchial and throat affection. Later he was attacked by diabetes, and had to spend several winters on the Continent. In 1874 he resigned his professorship. In August 1875 he was gratified by receiving from Edinburgh the LL.D. degree, his bust by Brodie being presented to the University by former pupils. He was operated on for stone in September following at Norwich, by Mr. Cadge, and died on September 25th, being buried at Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, by the side of his friends, Goodsir and Edward Forbes. His wife, son, and four daughters survived him. FOOTNOTES: [14] Biographical Notice, prefixed to Graves’ “Studies in Physiology and Medicine,” 1863. [15] _Edinburgh Medical Journal_, October 1, 1845. [16] _Edinburgh Medical Journal_, November 1875, p. 473. See also _British Medical Journal_, October 9th, 1875. CHAPTER XXIV. _CONOLLY, MAUDSLEY, AND MENTAL DISEASES._ The modern realisation of the association of mental with physical health, the annexation to the sphere of biology of the phenomena of mind, and the concurrent comprehension of the true attitude of the physician towards mental diseases, have doubtless put into the shade achievements less than a century old, and some of them dating from only fifty years ago. Yet the simple discontinuance of the system of restraint practised from time immemorial on almost all lunatics was perhaps a greater practical revolution than the biological one just referred to; and England stands in the forefront of this revolution.