Harry Quatermain is a medical student who dies of smallpox while working in a hospital .
He entrusts the printing of memoirs in the series to his son Harry , whose death he mourns in the opening of the novel Allan Quatermain .
Harry   is a medical Harry who dies of smallpox while working in a hospital .
He entrusts the printing of memoirs in the series to his son Harry , whose death he mourns in the opening of the novel Allan Quatermain .