He for some years edited the Guy's Hospital Reports, and at the time of his death was examiner in medicine to the university of London.
He had been occupied on the last day of his life in reading examination papers, when he was seized with difficulty of breathing, and died in half an hour on 18 November 1883, at his house in Grosvenor Street, in his forty-sixth year.
He was buried at West Norwood Cemetery and a bronze memorial tablet erected in the museum of Guy's Hospital.
He wrote original papers and his Principles and Practice of Medicine, published in 1886, with additions by Samuel Wilks and Philip Henry Pye-Smith (editor).
With Dr. Thomas Stevenson, he made a series of researches on the application of physiological tests for digitaline and other poisons (Proc.