An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson.

  • Atkinson, E. (Edward)
Date:
[1896]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [.Reprinted front The Quarterly Medical Journal, October, 1896.] EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM HEY, F.R.S.1 BY EDWARD ATKINSON, Consulting Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary, &c. I HAVE been reminded that it is customary for the new President to deliver a short opening address. This duty is one which each year becomes more difficult, because in these days of many opportunities and much talking it is next to impossible to find a topic possessing any element of novelty, and at the same time, the correlative requisites of appropriateness and interest. In these straits it occurred to me that having on the recent occasion of a change of residence—one of those seismic convul- sions that bring all kinds of flotsam and jetsam to the surface— discovered an old document of some interest which had come down to me through three generations of ancestors, I might venture to use it for my present purpose. This was no less than a brief but original record of the last illness, death and post-mortem examination of my great-grand- father, William Hey, F.R.S. I will now, with your permission, read the memorandum verbatim as I found it: it is in the handwriting of his son, my grandfather. 1 Part of address as President of the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Asso- ciation, delivered at Leeds on June 17, 1896.