Memoirs of Eighty Years

MEMOIRS OF EIGHTY YEARS.
BY GORDON HAKE, PHYSICIAN.
“Could we elude the fiat,—all must die,—
Men would become their own posterity.”
LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1892.
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Transcriber’s Note: the errata have been corrected.

Several literary men of eminence have from time to time suggested to me that I ought to write my memoirs, but I have long held the opinion that such works have scarcely a legitimate interest for one’s contemporaries. Now, however, that I have exceeded, by fourteen years, the age of man, I begin to regard the opinion of others, and to look upon myself as a sort of incipient posterity, and am disposed to make the experiment of placing some portion of my life on record.