of iced water. His lectures were highly valued by the students, and the characteristic of his teaching was the ability with which the facts of pathology were made the basis of practical diagnosis and treatment. All his writings manifested great research and labour, and are encyclopædic on their subjects. Besides the works enumerated below, he had been for many years preparing a treatise on diseases of the lungs and an atlas of their pathological anatomy, works that were nearly complete at his death. Later life In April 1887, he was suddenly summoned to the deathbed of his eldest brother at Wellington. Thence he went northwards towards his home at Rydal for a rest, but was seized with pneumonia on the way and died on 3 May at Preston, Lancashire. He was buried at Taunton on 6 May 1887. A bust in the Shire Hall, Taunton, was unveiled on 25 October 1888. His first wife died in 1870; by her he left three sons and three daughters. In 1874 he married Evelyn, daughter of Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, and widow of Captain Burgoyne, who was capsized off Cape Finisterre during a gale on 7 September 1870. His second son was Henry Wilson-Fox (1863–1921), who became a director of many companies in Rhodesia, and a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP). Publications Fox's principal writings were: On the Origin, Structure, and Mode of Development of Cystic Tumours of the Ovary,’ ‘Med.-Chir. Trans., 1864, xlvii. 227–86. On the Artificial Production of Tubercle in the Lower Animals, a lecture before the Royal College of Physicians, 1864. On the Development of Striated Muscular Fibre, "Phil. Trans." clvi. 1866. On the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Varieties of Dyspepsia, 1867; 3rd edition, enlarged, 1872, under the title The Diseases of the Stomach, substantially a reproduction of his articles in Reynolds' System of Medicine, vol. ii. 1868. Articles on Pneumonia, &c., in Reynolds's System, iii. 1871. On the Treatment of Hyperpyrexia by means of the External Application of Cold, 1871. References External links 1831 births 1887 deaths People from Somerset People educated at Bruce Castle School Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of London 19th-century English medical doctors English Quakers 19th-century Quakers English medical writers 19th-century English non-fiction writers Fellows of the Royal Society Burials in Somerset Physicians-in-Ordinary