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IN a former number, under the date of February 8, we had the painful duty of announcing the death, at the age of fifty-six, of Dr. George Edward Day, F.R.S., Emeritus Chandos Professor of Medicine in the University of St. Andrews, which took place at Torquay on January 31, 1872. Most of his earlier friends had probably heard of the sad accident which reduced him to a state of bodily helplessness, and which darkened his latter years; but few of those who remembered him only as the genial witty Cantab, overflowing with life and spirits, and as the brilliant medical student at Edinburgh, carrying everything before him in class-room and debating hall, or later, as the active untiring President of the Medical Examinations at St. Andrews, would have supposed him capable of the cheerful resignation with which he submitted to his enforced exclusion from all participation in active, professional, and social life.
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Dr. G. E. Day . Nature 5, 383–384 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005383c0
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