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Credit: Tributes to the memory of Dr. David Maclagan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![tliat the bow which had been so long upon the stretch was no longer abiding in strength, and that the ])hysical and mental vigour of the ohl man was beginning to fail. It M'as no small trial for a man of such activity of frame, and such perferviduni ingenium, to be laid aside from wonted service; and, often very unfit for it, he continued to bear his share of public duty. One of the latest public matters in which he took part was the laborious and difficult task of administering the Indian Mutiny Eelief Fund. Deeply thankful that with three sons in the Eiist at that time, no hair of their heads had suffered, he threw himself u ith an almost unnatural energy into this matter, and faithfully attended long business meetings when those M'ho were with him felt he shoidd have been resting and at home. In the now popular and prosperous cause of Medical Missions he took an early and lively interest, although unable to bear an active part in the work of the committees who directed them ; and while his interest in political and public questions was not abated, his hearty sympathy with all religious efforts steadily deepened and increased. Into the history of his inner life—the true life after all—it is not the province of a public journal largely to enter, but our notice would be incomplete without some such reference. Sufficient is it to say, that as “ the outward man perished, the inward man was renewed day by day.” In his library the books at his right hand were more and more of a religious and experimental character, while the best of books was ever increasingly the “ man of his counsel.” A most graceful and affecting thread of humility ran through his whole life, and especially through the later years of it. Often, in the confidence of loving inter- course, he spoke of his personal unworthiness,—of the loving-kindnes.s of God to him and to his,— and of the Saviour of sinners as his own and only refuge. During an alarming illness which he had in 1 S.IS, this .sj)iiit Mas](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21988389_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
