until he became a fashionable doctor with one of the largest practices in London, counting among his patients some of the most distinguished men of the day. The great number of persons who passed through his consulting-room every morning rendered it inevitable that to a large extent his advice should become stereotyped and his prescriptions often reduced to mere stock formulae, but in really serious cases he was not to be surpassed in the skill and carefulness of his diagnosis and in his attention to detail. Honours He delivered the Lumleian Lectures in 1867 and the Croonian Lecture in 1885 to the Royal College of Physicians, both on the subject of pulmonary conditions. He was created a baronet in 1883 in recognition of his services to medical science. He was elected the same year President of the Clinical Society of London. In June 1885 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1892. Writing In spite of the claims of his practice he found time to produce a good many books, all written in the precise and polished style on which he used to pride himself. Doubtless owing largely to personal reasons, lung diseases and especially lung fibrosis formed his favourite theme, but he also discussed other subjects, such as kidney failure, anemia, constipation, etc. Personal life In 1891, his daughter Mary Kane married zoologist Oldfield Thomas. Death He died in London, after a paralytic stroke, and was buried at Essenden, near his country house at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. References External links AIM25 Archives in London 1826 births 1893 deaths People from Aberdeen People educated at the High School of Dundee Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society Scottish non-fiction writers Scottish pathologists