months, but he outlived almost every one of them.

[Illustration: THE CADUCENS, MACE, BOOK, AND SEAL--COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
_From a Photo by Mavor & Meredith_]

No man could have kept on for fourteen and sixteen hours a day, as Sir
Andrew did, without unbounded enthusiasm and an absorbing interest.

His enormous correspondence must have been the great tax. Most people
are disinclined to write a dozen letters at the end of a hard day's
work; but Sir Andrew often came home at eight o'clock with the knowledge
that letters would occupy him until after midnight. His letters averaged
sixty per day. These would be answered by return, except where minute
directions were inclosed.

Only the other day, a friend of his told me, Sir Andrew came in the
morning, a short time before he was taken ill, looking very tired and
worried. On being asked the reason, he said he had not slept all night,
for he went to see a patient three days before, and because he had not
sent the table of directions, the patient wrote saying he would not try
his treatment. "I never slept," said Sir Andrew, "thinking of the state
of mind to which I had unavoidably reduced that poor patient."

In order to get through his work he had a light breakfast at 7.30, when
he read his letters, which were opened for him. From eight until two or
three he saw patients, his simple luncheon being taken in the
consulting-room. He would then go to the hospital, College of
Physicians, or some consultation; he had often after that to go to see
someone at a distance, but he never worried a patient by seeming in a
hurry, however much pressed for time.