Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the co-founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. He was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery Dublin. He left his library - worth £30000 even at that time - to Trinity College Dublin but failed to patent his invention of having the hand denoting seconds fixed on to a watch.

S. D. R.