Address of Sir Edward H. Sieveking, M.D., Ll.D., F.R.C.P., President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 1st, 1889.

  • Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904.
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1889
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    died in tlie seventy-sixth yeai* of his age at his residence, Highwood near Eeading. His first teacher was his father, who practised in the Edgware Koad, long before the neighbourhood had become as populous as it is now. At the age of twenty-seven he married the daughter of Major Parris, and entered into partnership with his father. Having passed the examination of the Apothe- caries' Company in 1839, he became M.R.C.S. in 1840, and F.R.C.S. in 1858. In 1870 Mr. Bryant obtained the Licence of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. About this time he appears to have taken up his residence near Reading, and only to have visited London on three or four days in the week, but even this proved eventually too much for his strength, and he succumbed to senile gan- grene and exhaustion. Mr. Bryant was elected a Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1855. His biographers^ state that his ingenuity in contriving means of relieving pain and in the general management of the sick room was of striking value to him; but probably the true key to his success as a practitioner was his devotion to the interests of his case. No trouble, no fatigue, no pains, were too great for him, if only he thought there was a chance of relieving the sufferer, and this devotion was amply recipro- cated by those he attended. Mr. Bryant is stated to have been naturally of a cheerful disposition, ever welcome at the bedside, and in general society always making his mark by the large fund of general information and anec- dote which he possessed. Dr. Thomas Harrington TuTce is the next Fellow of this Society in my obituary list; he was called away on the 9th June. He was one whom all who knew him, and they were very numerous, will recall with genuine affection and respect, the more so as E'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side, for his latter days were clouded by pecuniary difficulties, which are attributable to an unselfish generosity. Dr. ' ' Brit. Med. Journal' and ' Lancet,' May 26th, 1888.