Identifier: albanymedicalann2719medi (find matches)
Title: Albany medical annals
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Medical Society of the County of Albany (N.Y.) Albany Medical College. Alumni Association
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Burdick & Taylor
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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" We have been brought together by our common love and reverence
for a life which has probably menat more to many of us than we our-
selves shall ever know. I should like to express very simply what is in
all our hearts to-day, and what will be in the thoughts of a great number
of others when the word reaches them that Dr. Webster is dead.
" For his family a very loving heart has ceased to beat. Nothing
can ever replace for his children what they have now lost. Men of great
social gifts often live for the outside world, turning a radiant hemisphere
to strangers, and a morose and silent face to their own people. Men of
intense intellectual nature are often so abstracted by their studies that
their own children get only the dregs of their interest and vitality.
Dr. Webster was a man of great social brilliancy and attractiveness,
and a man of continued intellectual application, but nothing ever eclipsed
his children. He was most tenderly interested in their welfare, sym-
pathetic, tolerant, hopeful and glad. In an interval of consciousness
before his death he said to me: I dont know anything now but children,
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Harrison Edwin Webster
Albany Medical Annals,
September, 1906.

IN MEMORIAM 675

children, children,' and he repeated the word 'children' over and over. It
was the palsied hand of his mind feeling its way along the most familiar
strings on the harp of his life. His first grandchild, named after him,
was a great and sweet comfort to him. For his wife he expressed an
affection so tender that I must not quote his words. His last words
were a blessing on her faithfulness. Because he loved his family so
passionately, any sorrow coming to him by the death or affliction of
his dearest ones hurt him profoundly. Some things he rarely or never
mentioned. With all the careless ease of his talk he had a deep reticence.
But much of the cloud that darkened his later years had risen out of
the depths of his griefs.
" To his friends he gave unstinted devotion and fidelity. He was an
exceedingly companionable man, ready to meet any man, swift to find
the plane of ideas and interests on which the man lived, and most
adaptable in meeting him on

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