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SIR RICHARD QUAIN, Bart., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., President of the General Medical Council, died on March 13, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. He had been ill for more than twelve months, and during the last half-year of his life was entirely confined to bed. His last appearance in public was when his paper on the “Cause of the First Sound of the Heart” was read before the Royal Society in June, on which occasion the President made a touching reference to the extraordinary courage which Quain displayed. His life had been one of ceaseless activity, good health, and overflowing spirits; and when overtaken by disease he appeared not to regard or understand rest, physician though he was. The paper just referred to was written in bed, and he left his bed to present and defend it. But no one was surprised at this who knew the story of the man's life.
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Sir Richard Quain. Nature 57, 467–468 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057467a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057467a0