Brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman, Esq. M.D.F.L.S. Physician to the public dispensary, and to the Fever Institution, London, and formerly President of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh.

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman, Esq. M.D.F.L.S. Physician to the public dispensary, and to the Fever Institution, London, and formerly President of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no intermission of these joyful feelings; and he an- swered, “ For some months past never> and never the smallest rising of any thing like impatience or com- plaint.” His mind, naturally active and ardent, retain- ed all its powers in full vigour to the last moment of his life, and was never once clouded or debilitated, even in the most depressing nervous languors. Indeed, after the whole current of his tastes and affections had been turned into a new channel, its ardour and activity ra- ther increased than diminished, from the deep convic* tion which he felt of the superiority of his present views and pursuits, to all that had hitherto engrossed him* During the last week of his life, especially, the strength and clearness of his intellect, and of his spiritual per- ceptions, were very remarkable; and on its being one day observed to him, that as his bodily powers decay- ed, those of his soul seemed to become more vigorous, he replied, cc They do, exactly in an inverse ratio; I have been very sensible of it.” He conversed with the greatest animation all the day and almost all the night, preceding his death, principally on the joys of heaven, and the glorious change he was soon to experience? often exclaiming, “ What a happy hour will the hour of death be !” He dwelt much on the description of the new Jerusalem, in the Revelations of St John, and listened with great delight to several passages from Bax- ter’s 66 Saint’s Rest,” and to some of Watts’ hymns on the same subject. Once in the night he said to his mo- ther, u Surely you are not in tears ! Mine is a case that calls for rejoicing, and not for sorrow. Only think what it will be to drop this poor, frail, perishing body, and to go to the glories that are set before me !” Not more than an hour before his death, when he had been expressing his faith and hope in very animated terms.