Address of George Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 2nd, 1885.

  • Johnson, George, 1818-1896.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Address of George Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 2nd, 1885. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    helpmate, and soon afterwards he removed to a larger house in Mansfield Street, where for some years he lived very happily. In time, however, he found that his income from private practice as a pure Surgeon did not keep pace with the requirements of an increasing family, and in 1876, having taken his M.D. at Oxford, he deter- mined to leave London and engage in general practice at Southborough in Kent. There he spent the last eight years of his life beloved and respected by all who knew him, and, in addition to the faithful discharge of his strictly professional work, taking an active interest in local and general philanthropic movements, which he was ever ready to assist by his voice and his pen. In. 1881 the village of Southborough, notwithstanding its great natural advantages, was not free from grave sanitary defects and Dr. Clarke was long prostrated by a severe attack of typhoid fever. This serious illness appears to have left some permanent mischief, and about two months before his death there arose symptoms of obscure brain disease which, making rapid progress, proved fatal, to the grief of his numerous friends, on the 8th May, 1884. His premature death excited much sympathy for his bereaved widow and his four sons. Mr. Gsesar Henry Hawkins was born September 19th, 1798, at Bisley, in Grioucestershire. His father the Rev. Edward Hawkins, was Vicar of Bisley and the youngest son of Sir Caesar Hawkins, who was for many years Surgeon to St. George's Hospital and Sergeant Surgeon to George II and George III. At the age of nine Mr. Cffisar Hawkins entered Christ's Hospital, where he remained six years. In 1814, soon after leaving the Blue- coat School, he was articled for five years to Mr. Sheppard, a practitioner at Hampton Court. In 1819 he became a pupil at St. George's Hospital when Sir Everard Home was the most eminent Surgeon and Mr. Brodie was acting as his assistant. He obtained the diploma of the College of Surgeons in 1821, and the same year he was House Surgeon at the