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physiotherapist accompanied him at his clinics, enabling him to make quickly implemented decisions on treatment of patients made ready for examination by staff trained in his ways. He expected the same intensity of purpose from all and could be very frank if this was not forthcoming. He was clear and decisive in thought and speech and was an excellent and formidable witness in court. Right up to a short time before his death he was actively engaged in medico-legal work. He is survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter. H.B.Y.
25,1975
of sodium and water output by the kidney after blood-volume expansion. Professor Pearce was very active in scientific affairs at the national level as a member of committees of the Medical Research Council, Defense Research Board, Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences, Biological Council, and Council on Science and Technology (SCITEC). He was a member of the Physiological Society, American Physiological Society, and Canadian Physiological Society of which he became President in 1968-1969. Professor Pearce will long be remembered by his students and colleagues for the high standards he set in all of his varied activities and for his warm personality. F.R.C.
JOHN POLLACK PHILP M.B.Edin., F.R.C.S.E.
PETER MAYNARD SENDER
Mr John (Ian) Philp, formerly senior surgeon to Warrington General Hospital, died on Sept. 21 at his home in Powmill, Scotland, at the age of 64. He graduated M.B. from Edinburgh Medical School in 1933. As a young man he held resident posts at the Stirling Royal Infirmary and also in Birmingham, but he returned to Edinburgh as demonstrator in anatomy, and became F.R.C.S.E. in 1938. He was appointed resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and later honorary assistant surgeon to Ancoats Hospital and also honorary surgeon to the Duchess of York and Booth Hall Children's Hospitals in Manchester. While at Ancoats Hospital he met Dr Jane MacKintosh, also resident at the hospital, who became his wife. During the war, part of his time was spent working very hard as R.S.O. at Ancoats Hospital at the time of the heavy air raids on Manchester; for the remainder of the war he was in the R.A.M.C. and spent some time in India and the Far East. Early in 1949 he was appointed consultant surgeon to Warrington General Hospital and Newton-Ie-Willows Hospital, where he worked until illness forced his retirement in 1973. For most of that time he dominated the surgical scene in Warrington and the district. Ian Philp was a superb and gentle operative surgeon and a fine clinician, the sort of man to whom you would entrust your nearest and dearest without question. He was a strong and dominant character but kind and understanding, with high standards and strong principles. He was for many years a powerful member of the hospital management committee, putting in untold hours of hard work on behalf of the hospital, the patients, and his medical colleagues. The people of Warrington and its district can be grateful for the privilege of having had such a fine Scot on loan in their midst for 25 years. He leaves a widow, who is a consultant aneesthetist, two sons, and a daughter, who is also a doctor. D.M.F.
Dr Peter Sender, scientific officer in the department of human nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, died on Oct. 5 at the age of 34. After graduating M.B. at the University of Witwatersrand, he moved to England and became a registrar in chemical pathology at the Hammersmith Hospital. From there he moved towards the basic sciences, taking first an M.SC. in biochemistry at University College, and then a l'H.D. under Sir Ernst Chain at Imperial College. After this thorough grounding he was exceptionally well fitted for work in experimental medicine, and the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases was fortunate to secure him as a member of the staff there in 1971. Sender's work at Imperial College had been on the metabolism of the perfused heart, and while continung some laboratory research he devoted himself increasingly to investigations on patients. He began by studying protein turnover in normal and obese subjects, and showed that a reduction in food intake produced a large fall in protein turnover-an adaptive response which is of much practical and theoretical interest. In the last two years he had become increasingly interested in the metabolic response to injury, and at the time of his death was studying protein turnover in patients with severe burns or trauma. Earlier this year he was appointed honorary lecturer in surgical metabolism at University College Hospital Medical School. Peter Sender had great gifts; he was a born research-worker, and made a most important personal and intellectual contribution to our small team. While he saw his own role primarily as a scientist, he was in fact an excellent doctor, and verv much liked by patients. Colleagues, friends, patients, and students will remember not only his ability, but also his kindness and generosity.
Ph.D. Lond., M.B. W'srand
J.C.W.
JAMES Wll.LIAM PEARCE M.D., C.M. Queen's, D.Phii. Oxon. Dr J. W. Pearce, professor of physiology in the University of Toronto Medical School, died on July 10,
1975. He was born in Northern Alberta in 1924 and qualified M.D., C.M. from Queen's University in 1947. After a short period in clinical medicine he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a D.l'HIL. in physiology. On his return to Canada he spent three years from 1952 to 1955, in the department of physiology at the University of Western Ontario, from which he went to the University of Alberta to become professor and head of the department of physiology and pharmacology-a position he held until 1967 when he became professor of physiology at the University of Toronto. In 1965-66 he spent a year as a visiting scientist at the A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology at Babraham. His early interests in research focused on the neurophysiology of cardiovascular reflexes, and later he became involved in the control
MARK BURKE M.R.C.S.
Dr Mark Burke died in Birmingham on Sept. 12, aged 74. Coming to this country at the age of 4 from what is now Poland, he was educated in London and he subsequently qualified as a psychoanalyst. Following war service in the Middle East as major, R.A.M.C., he returned to London, and early in the post-war years, having fluency in several languages, he grasped the opportunity to teach psychoanalysis in Brazil. In the mid-1950s he was again in London where, as a therapist, he was at his best, and in 1968 he obtained a special concession to practise at Sacramento; California. An orthodox Freudian, he was punctilious of detail, and the accurate concentration with which he applied his art was rewarded by a satisfying level of achievement. D.T.M.
THE LANCET, OCTOBER
physiotherapist accompanied him at his clinics, enabling him to make quickly implemented decisions on treatment of patients made ready for examination by staff trained in his ways. He expected the same intensity of purpose from all and could be very frank if this was not forthcoming. He was clear and decisive in thought and speech and was an excellent and formidable witness in court. Right up to a short time before his death he was actively engaged in medico-legal work. He is survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter. H.B.Y.
25,1975
of sodium and water output by the kidney after blood-volume expansion. Professor Pearce was very active in scientific affairs at the national level as a member of committees of the Medical Research Council, Defense Research Board, Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences, Biological Council, and Council on Science and Technology (SCITEC). He was a member of the Physiological Society, American Physiological Society, and Canadian Physiological Society of which he became President in 1968-1969. Professor Pearce will long be remembered by his students and colleagues for the high standards he set in all of his varied activities and for his warm personality. F.R.C.
JOHN POLLACK PHILP M.B.Edin., F.R.C.S.E.
PETER MAYNARD SENDER
Mr John (Ian) Philp, formerly senior surgeon to Warrington General Hospital, died on Sept. 21 at his home in Powmill, Scotland, at the age of 64. He graduated M.B. from Edinburgh Medical School in 1933. As a young man he held resident posts at the Stirling Royal Infirmary and also in Birmingham, but he returned to Edinburgh as demonstrator in anatomy, and became F.R.C.S.E. in 1938. He was appointed resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and later honorary assistant surgeon to Ancoats Hospital and also honorary surgeon to the Duchess of York and Booth Hall Children's Hospitals in Manchester. While at Ancoats Hospital he met Dr Jane MacKintosh, also resident at the hospital, who became his wife. During the war, part of his time was spent working very hard as R.S.O. at Ancoats Hospital at the time of the heavy air raids on Manchester; for the remainder of the war he was in the R.A.M.C. and spent some time in India and the Far East. Early in 1949 he was appointed consultant surgeon to Warrington General Hospital and Newton-Ie-Willows Hospital, where he worked until illness forced his retirement in 1973. For most of that time he dominated the surgical scene in Warrington and the district. Ian Philp was a superb and gentle operative surgeon and a fine clinician, the sort of man to whom you would entrust your nearest and dearest without question. He was a strong and dominant character but kind and understanding, with high standards and strong principles. He was for many years a powerful member of the hospital management committee, putting in untold hours of hard work on behalf of the hospital, the patients, and his medical colleagues. The people of Warrington and its district can be grateful for the privilege of having had such a fine Scot on loan in their midst for 25 years. He leaves a widow, who is a consultant aneesthetist, two sons, and a daughter, who is also a doctor. D.M.F.
Dr Peter Sender, scientific officer in the department of human nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, died on Oct. 5 at the age of 34. After graduating M.B. at the University of Witwatersrand, he moved to England and became a registrar in chemical pathology at the Hammersmith Hospital. From there he moved towards the basic sciences, taking first an M.SC. in biochemistry at University College, and then a l'H.D. under Sir Ernst Chain at Imperial College. After this thorough grounding he was exceptionally well fitted for work in experimental medicine, and the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases was fortunate to secure him as a member of the staff there in 1971. Sender's work at Imperial College had been on the metabolism of the perfused heart, and while continung some laboratory research he devoted himself increasingly to investigations on patients. He began by studying protein turnover in normal and obese subjects, and showed that a reduction in food intake produced a large fall in protein turnover-an adaptive response which is of much practical and theoretical interest. In the last two years he had become increasingly interested in the metabolic response to injury, and at the time of his death was studying protein turnover in patients with severe burns or trauma. Earlier this year he was appointed honorary lecturer in surgical metabolism at University College Hospital Medical School. Peter Sender had great gifts; he was a born research-worker, and made a most important personal and intellectual contribution to our small team. While he saw his own role primarily as a scientist, he was in fact an excellent doctor, and verv much liked by patients. Colleagues, friends, patients, and students will remember not only his ability, but also his kindness and generosity.
Ph.D. Lond., M.B. W'srand
J.C.W.
JAMES Wll.LIAM PEARCE M.D., C.M. Queen's, D.Phii. Oxon. Dr J. W. Pearce, professor of physiology in the University of Toronto Medical School, died on July 10,
1975. He was born in Northern Alberta in 1924 and qualified M.D., C.M. from Queen's University in 1947. After a short period in clinical medicine he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a D.l'HIL. in physiology. On his return to Canada he spent three years from 1952 to 1955, in the department of physiology at the University of Western Ontario, from which he went to the University of Alberta to become professor and head of the department of physiology and pharmacology-a position he held until 1967 when he became professor of physiology at the University of Toronto. In 1965-66 he spent a year as a visiting scientist at the A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology at Babraham. His early interests in research focused on the neurophysiology of cardiovascular reflexes, and later he became involved in the control
MARK BURKE M.R.C.S.
Dr Mark Burke died in Birmingham on Sept. 12, aged 74. Coming to this country at the age of 4 from what is now Poland, he was educated in London and he subsequently qualified as a psychoanalyst. Following war service in the Middle East as major, R.A.M.C., he returned to London, and early in the post-war years, having fluency in several languages, he grasped the opportunity to teach psychoanalysis in Brazil. In the mid-1950s he was again in London where, as a therapist, he was at his best, and in 1968 he obtained a special concession to practise at Sacramento; California. An orthodox Freudian, he was punctilious of detail, and the accurate concentration with which he applied his art was rewarded by a satisfying level of achievement. D.T.M.