
Clark, SIR ANDREW, physician, was born at Wolfhill in Cargill, Perthshire, 28th October 1826, and educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. After a brilliant career as a student of medicine at Edinburgh, he assisted Dr Hughes Bennett and Dr Robert Knox the anatomist, and next had charge for four years of the pathological department at the Haslar Naval Hospital. After graduating at Aberdeen in 1854, he settled in London, where he acquired a high reputation for his skill in the treatment of diseases affecting the respiratory, renal, and digestive organs. Among his patients were some of the most eminent men in the political and literary world of his time, and he will live in remembrance as the 'beloved physician' of George Eliot. President of the Royal College of Physicians, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, and Consulting Physician to the London Hospital, he was besides LL.D. of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a baronet since 1883. His favourite work was clinical teaching at the London Hospital, for which Holl painted his portrait. He died (of paralysis—induced doubtless by ten years of self-devoting overwork) on the 7th November 1893. Although his professional success left him scant leisure for writing, he made numerous important contributions to medical science, both in papers contributed to the special journals and in such books as Evidences of the Arrestment of Phthisis, Lectures on the Anatomy of the Lung, The Theory of Asthma, The History of Dry Pleurisy in relation to Lung Disease, Renal Inadequacy, The Anæmia of Girls, Neurasthenia, and Mucous Disease of the Colon.