Surgeon's Self-Government

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 10

Surgeon's Self-Government

Te following account of the last Moments of Henry Green, twice president of the Royal College of Surgeons. Was written by Sir John Simon: To the servants who had gathered grieving around him, he said, “While I have breath, let me thank you all for your kindness and attention to me.” Next, to his doctor, who (juick-

ly entered he significantly, and pointing to the region of nis heart, said, * Congestion.’’ A Iter which in silence he set his fingers to his wrist, and feebly noted to himself the successive feeble pulses which were just between him and death. Presently he said, ‘Stopped.” And this was the very end. It was as if even to die were an act of his own grand self-government.