Excerpt from Guy's Hospital Reports, Vol. 43 To say that Mahomed was a man of progress may perhaps express in short the many outlets for the activity of his mind. If any fresh subject were mooted, provided that he did not start it, he always had something to say. He seemed to delight in committees and was a member of we know not how many. He was an active man at his medical school, active at the College of Physicians, the meetings of which be regularly attended, and at which he was commencing to speak with some frequency. He was active amongst the profession at large in questions scientific, sanitary, medico political, social no matter what it was, a pressing discussion of any sort found Mahomed somewhere in the outskirts, waiting, eager, almost panting to join in. And thus his last illness found him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.