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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    Parker was elected Assistant Physician and in 1863 Phy- sician to the London Hospital, and from 1856 lectured there on Medicine, in conjunction with Dr. Little, for several years'. A gentleman, now on the staii of the London Hos- pital, who attended his lectures, reports Dr. Parker to have been a most excellent lecturer and teacher, and a most amiable, courteous, and pleasant gentleman. His contribu- tions to medical literature are to be found in the twenty- second and twenty-third volumes (1850 and 1851) of the ' Medical Gazette,' one entitled Contributions to Psycho- logical Medicine,'' the other, Contributions to the Pathology of the Nervous System. He is stated to have resided in those days, and to have practised, in Finsbury Square. In 1866 Dr. Parker resigned his appointments at the Hospital on account of failing health; and, being pos- sessed of means, resided for some years in France. The outburst of the Franco-Grerman war caused him to leave that country, and in 1874 he took up his abode at Ramsgate, where he remained, paying occasional visits to London and the Continent, till his death. In 1883 he was stricken with right-sided paralysis. It affected his speech for a short time only, but he never recovered the use of his arm and leg. I am informed that his intellect was unimpaired to the last, when, after a six weeks' illness, he succumbed to pneumonia, at the age of sixty-six. Like that of his suc- cessor in this obituary record, Dr. Parker's name had not been widely known, though from what has been gathered concerning them both, they have by no means spent unpro- fitable lives. Dr. Christopher Thomas Richardson, of Nelson Crescent, Ramsgate, died there on the 4th April of the past year, at the age of seventy-three. He became a Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1852. It may interest those members of our Society who are fond of antiquarian minuti^ to be informed that his recommendation paper was one of the first to be presented in the printed form; pre- viously the wording was the same,^ but the whole was in '■ The last written recommendation for that of the Fellowship was that of