Samuel Rule

Samuel Rule

Dr Samuel Rule MD
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Died	1868
Residence	Madras Madura [1867]
Occupation	medical armed services
Society Membership membership ASL ordinary fellow left 1868 deceased elected_ASL 1867

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House Notes

Assist. Surgeon HMIA. Zillah Surgeon

1868.08.18 death announced


obit see JAS 1868 p. ciii pupil of Dr Langdon Down (copy below)

Notes From Elsewhere

Name: Samuel Rule Gender: Male Burial Date: 16 Feb 1868 Burial Place: Chicacole, Madras, India Death Date: 16 Feb 1868

Obituary Notice of Samuel Rule, M.D., F.A.S.L., etc, by John Shortt, M.D.,Loc. See. A.S.L.,and Langdon.H. Down, M.D.,F.A.Dr. Samuel Rule was born at Kingsbridge, in Devonshire. His mother having married a second time to a Plymouth gentleman, that town came the place of his boyhood. He was at first placed with a Pharma- ceutical Chemist of Plymouth ; but his tastes and aspirations were found to be in harmony with the drudgery of the business which to his lot. Instead of learning the scientific part of the business, found himself only becoming acquainted with the mysteries of trade. Subsequently he was articled to a surgeon of the same town; here he found that the student life, which he at once commenced, in harmony with his wishes. At the end of his apprenticeship 1853, he entered as a student at the London Hospital, and matri- culatecl at the University of London. He was a very intelligent ancl industrious student at the hospital, where he became a private pupil of Dr. Langdon Down, who was at that time the medical tutor of the hospital. He aimed to graduate in the University of London, ancl there is no cloubt that he woulcl have attained a high position in the honour-lists of that university, had not the occurrence of the Russian war inducecl him to leave, for a time, his studies, and volunteer as a medical assistant in the Baltic fleet. This gave him a longing to engage in the active duties of the profession he hacl chosen, and a taste for official rather than civil life. He hesitated to give the time which the highly honourecl degrees of the University of London ne- cessitated; ancl having passed the examination at the College of Sur? geons, he went to St. Andrew's to graduate, justify ing, however, the hopes that were entertained of him, by taking the highest position in the examination for honours which that university hacl then, for the first time established. He then turned his attention to the medical service of India, and he speedily obtained an appointment, by taking a high position in the competitive examination of 1858. He at once married, and was stationecl in the Madras Presiclency, ancl served with several regimental ancl other departments for some time, ancl eventually obtained the Civil Surgeoncy of Madura, where he had been some or three years, and was much esteemed by, ancl popular among, Euro? peans and natives, as a kind ancl able medical j>ractitioner. His health, however, giving way from the arcluous nature of his duties at that large station, he exchanged to the smaller civil station of Chittoa, where, when he had been resicling a short time, a dog belonging to one of officers was sent to him for treatment. Dr. Rule, with his usual kindly nature, approached the animal incautiously. The clog sprang at him, and seized him by the nose ancl upper lip, and had to strangled to make him let go his hold. In three or four days, symp- toms of hydrophobia set in, which proved fatal to Dr. Rule in forty- eight hours from the manifestation of the first symptoms. Dr. Rule had not written on Anthropology. He was, however, greatly interested in the natives of India; ancl it is probable that, for this unfortunate event, the science in which recently he hacl taken great interest, woulcl have been advanced by his labours.