DOCTOR'S BELIEF.
RESEARCH HOSPITAL BEQUEST. (BY CABLE—rR7.SS ASSOCIATION—rorYKIGB'T.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, January 28. Sir Robert Charles Brown, who left £76,974 net, bequeathed to Cambridge ..University Research Hospital £IOOO, together with his body, requesting it ti> keep any organs desired, also the ashes after cremation of the remainder. "I believe," he added, "in the resurrection of the dead, and in the life of the world to come, and that when the bodj* dies the soul will go to Heaven, where it shall be allowed, in an intensified form, those pleasures enjoyed on earth, and where there is no death, sorrow, crime or pain. I believe Christ's death on the Cross made atonement for my sins." [Sir Robert Brown, M.8., F.TI.C.P., F.R.C.S.. was consulting medical officer of the Preston Infirmary. He was born in 1836, and was educated at King's College, London, and ab Edinburgh and Dublin Universities. He was three times president of the Lancashire and the Cheshire branch of the British Medical Association.]
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18603, 30 January 1926, Page 9
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