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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt:... CHAPTER X THE TYPHUS PATIENTS ON ARRANMORE--HIS DEVOTION HIS FALLING A VICTIM TO THE FEVER HIS DEATH AND FUNERAL Typhus fever was no unfamiliar visitor to the Rosses, and many had been its victims. Like the Boers in the South African war it had not been content with taking toll of the rank and file, but had seemed to make a special point of attacking the officers in the shape of doctors, nurses and priests who opposed it. Of doctors, it has been seen that Dr. Smyth's immediate predecessor at Burtonport was a victim, so was Dr. Creery, who was dispensary doctor at Dunglow before Dr. Smyth took the combined districts, and so also was Dr. Doherty, who held the same post until four years ago, when he was succeeded by Dr. Gardiner, the present Jholderof the office. Yet another victim was dispensary doctor at Ardara, where it will be remembered that Dr. Smyth was at one time stationed, and there were others besides in further parts of Donegal. But in spite of this, and in spite of the awful scenes which he had from time to time witnessed--he once attended seven typhus patients lying on the floor of one small room--and in spite of his having stated that he did not believe that, if he took the fever, he should recover from it, Dr. Smyth never seems to have lost courage or seriously contemplated the likelihood of being struck down himself. He would sometimes refer to the chances of death in other ways. Speaking to a friend about his determination to continue his work in the Rosses rather than seek a more prominent sphere, he said: "Here I shall live and die and have my being, and then be buried in a boghole and nothing more be heard of me." Being buried in a bog-hole was a fate that might easily have befallen him in his long night tramps to...