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Excerpt from Journals and Reminiscences of James Douglas
He shunned popularity. He wrote a clear and con cise style, yet never contributed a Single article to even a medical journal. He was a fascinating story teller and a consummate actor, and with practice would have been an able speaker; yet he foreswore politics, both municipal and national, during the years of his active professional life. Nor did he thus isolate himself from indolence, but from obedience to self imposed rules of life. He looked upon himself as the servant of his patients and at liberty to follow no ex traneous occupation, and to allow his mind to be dis tracted by no pursuit which might absorb the time and thought which he considered to be theirs, without subtraction. He was a superb man, endowed not only with remarkable gifts of mind, but a. Massive and well balanced frame. Every feature of the face, the size and contour of the head, even the bushy crop of hair, which refused to be smoothed, but stood erect and defiant, bespoke strength of purpose and activity of intellect.
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