Editing Thomas Addison (section)

==Depression, death and memorial==
Thomas Addison suffered from episodes of [[clinical depression]] at the end of his life.<ref name="ODNB"/> In 1860 he wrote to his medical students as follows: "A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities, and excitement of my profession." Three months later, on 29 June 1860, he committed [[suicide]]. The day after his death, the ''[[Brighton Herald]]'' recorded that: 

<blockquote>"Dr Addison, formerly a physician to Guy's Hospital, committed suicide by jumping down the area (i.e. the space between the front of the house and the street) of 15 Wellington Villas, where he had for some time been residing, under the care of two attendants, having before attempted self-destruction."</blockquote>

Addison was buried in the churchyard of [[Lanercost Priory]] in [[Cumberland]].<ref name="ODNB"/> Guy's Hospital had a bust made of him, named a hall of the new part of the hospital for him, and perpetuated his memory with a marble wall table in the chapel.