Memoir of the Chisholm
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CHAPTER XIV.
HIS LAST ILLNESS — DEATH — AND BURIAL.
On the first of August, 1838, the Chisholm,
who had gone to Inverness upon business, was
seized, at the Caledonian Hotel, with sudden
and alarming illness, which, in a few weeks,
terminated in death. The illness was ascer-
tained eventually to have been caused by an
aneurism of the aorta, for which human skill
and science afford no remedy. The symptoms,
indeed, which accompanied the first attack,
soon subsided ; and they who watched over
him, seeing him under all his sufferings, main-
tain the same cheerfulness and buoyancy of
spirits which had always characterized him,
might have indulged the hope that he would
yet be spared to them. But the hope was not
to be fulfilled. He was himself quite con-
HIS LAST ILLNESS — DEATH — AND BURIAL.
On the first of August, 1838, the Chisholm,
who had gone to Inverness upon business, was
seized, at the Caledonian Hotel, with sudden
and alarming illness, which, in a few weeks,
terminated in death. The illness was ascer-
tained eventually to have been caused by an
aneurism of the aorta, for which human skill
and science afford no remedy. The symptoms,
indeed, which accompanied the first attack,
soon subsided ; and they who watched over
him, seeing him under all his sufferings, main-
tain the same cheerfulness and buoyancy of
spirits which had always characterized him,
might have indulged the hope that he would
yet be spared to them. But the hope was not
to be fulfilled. He was himself quite con-
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| Histories of Scottish families > Memoir of the Chisholm > (246) Page 232 - His last illness --- death --- and burial |
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| Description | Late M.P. for Inverness-shire. By the Reverend James S.M. Anderson. London: Printed [by Gilbert & Rivington] for J. G. F. & J. Rivington, 1842. |
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| Shelfmark | Stirton.c.20 |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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