Identifier: tristatemedicalj2189ball (find matches)
Title: Tri-State medical journal
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ball, James Moores, 1863-1929
Subjects: Tri-State Medical Society Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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, and after much persuasion he yielded, and took part of my lecture in kindly talk to my class in anatomy. He dined by a generally concerted programme that day with my father, who had most of the University magnates there to meet him. On that occasion there happened one of the most amusing incidents I have ever witnessed. It was my fathers custom, from which he never deviated, to have evening dinner and prayers and scripture reading after all the service was removed. On this, perhaps his first occasion, Professor Huxley got on his knees while my father prayed lustily and personally to God in behalf of science and everything else that goes to make up a universe. During the prayer a large pet cat found its way to the precatory chair and my father, without halting, stroked its back while he laid before the throne just wha the felt was needful for the good of all concerned in his orisons. I touched-Mr. Huxley and called his attention to the picture by signs, which when 360 7tv The Professional Eye.
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In The Professional Eye. 361 lie beheld it so convulsed him with laughter that he could with difficulty refrain from an outbreak. He consented after very long solicitation from every prominent man in the city of Nashville, to lecture one evening, taking for his subject the geology of Tennessee. There was an immense audience, but they were disappointed as he could scarcely be heard at the reporters tables. In introducing him I referred to the distinguished guest as the Apostle of Modern Science. That sealed my doom as a teacher in Vanderbilt, and Professor Winchell, who wrote the Pre-Adamites, and myself walked out into the freer atmosphere of a State Institution. I loved Professor Huxley, though many thought him cold and indifferent. I feel sad at his death—the more so as most of my old masters have passed away, and those that are left will follow soon. But if, as holiest men have deemed, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee, And sophists

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