The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894.: An Illustrated MonthlyVarious
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The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894.: An Illustrated Monthly
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The bishop told me a characteristic anecdote illustrating this: "A
clergyman complained to him of feeling low and depressed, unable to face
his work, and tempted to rely on stimulants. Sir Andrew saw that the
position was a perilous one, and that it was a crisis in the man's life.
He dealt with the case, and forbade resort to stimulants, when the
patient declared that he would be unequal to his work and ready to sink.
'Then,' said Sir Andrew, 'sink like a man!'" This is but one of many
incidents showing his marvellous power in restraining his patients and
raising them to a higher moral level. The writer could tell a far more
wonderful story of the saving of a drunkard, body and soul, but it is
too touching and sacred for publication. At the top of the wall of that
well-known consulting-room (in which Sir Andrew is said to have seen
10,000 patients annually), immediately facing the chair where he always
sat, are the words: "Glory to God."
[Illustration: CENSORS' ROOM--COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
_From a Photo. by Mavor & Meredith_.]
With regard to his profession he was an enthusiast. He termed medicine
"the metropolis of the kingdom of knowledge," and in one of his
addresses to students, said: "You have chosen one of the noblest, the
most important, and the most interesting of professions, but also the
most arduous and the most self-denying, involving the largest sacrifices
and the fewest rewards. He who is not prepared to find in its
cultivation and exercise his chief recompense, has mistaken his calling
and should retrace his steps."
He had an ideal, and he did his utmost to live up to it. His words in
many instances did as much good as his medicine.
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