Essays on surgical subjects / by Sir Berkeley Moynihan.

  • Berkeley Moynihan
Date:
1921
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Credit: Essays on surgical subjects / by Sir Berkeley Moynihan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tinguish the cordial intimacies of daily life, did not seem to play around him as freely as around other men. Even in a crowded room of busy men, or when a debate was keen he would steal a few moments for a whispered conversation, held aloof, on some topic that for the moment filled his thoughts. Among those who knew him well he was admired and deeply respected, rather than loved. Except to a very few he was not genial or respon¬ sive in friendship. His intellectual attainments were so considerable, and his position in the judgment of his contemporaries so secure, that jealousy hardly touched him, except perhaps in his earlier years and from a few among his seniors whose supremacy he challenged. Such jealousy is perhaps the tribute paid to youth for successful enterprise in thought or in action by minds which suffer from the atheroma of advancing years. We are reminded of the aphorism of Sir Walter Raleigh “For whoso reaps renown above the rest With heaps of hate shall surely be opprest.” Murphy was beyond question the greatest clinical teacher of his day. No one who listened to him can ever forget the experience. Before his audience arrived he had everything very carefully prepared, diagrams in order, microscopes ready, the patients examined, and all relevant literature at his finger ends. There he stood in the middle of the circle, in the theatre, with his assistants and friends in the first row and the other benches packed to the roof with eager students, or with medical men, who came again and again to learn from him afresh. As he began to speak one felt a strange sense of disappointment, • and even of dismay. For while the handsome face and upright figure were things of real beauty, the voice in
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