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THE LATE DR. GUY BLACK.
1003 THE
LATE
DR.
GUY
BLACK.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF
To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-No obituary notice has appeared in your columns of the late Dr. Guy Black, who died on April 9th in his fortythird year, and I should like to supply the deficiency, Guy Black was the eldest son of Mr. James Black, late lecturer in anatomy to Westminster Hospital Medical School. He received his education at St. Paul’s School and Dulwich College, and entered St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1894. After taking his diplomas of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., he graduated M.B. Lond. in 1900 and started work in Norwood and Thornton Heath, where he rapidly built up a very estensive practice. Undoubtedly he worked too long and too hard, for not until he had been in practice for 11 years did he take a holiday. This was only a holiday in name, -for on the eve of his departure for Switzerland he poisoned his thumb, and was obliged to return to England at once, where he passed through a serious illness. As the prolonged strain had undermined his constitution he gave up his practice and went to live at Rotherfield, in Sussex, to recuperate, taking locum tenens work for the medical men in the neighbourhood from time to time. When the war broke out in 1914 he took charge,of Surgeon-Major Trouton’s practice, and did the work with his accustomed thoroughness and energy. Once again he succumbed to excessive zeal, and the severity of the influenza epidemic added immensely to the strain. For the last seven ’, months his strength waned, and a gradually increasing anasmia and breathlessness led him to consult a colleague, ’i who recommended an operation. For this purpose he entered ’, St. Thomas’s, but he went downhill so rapidly that the opera- ’, tion, which can only be described as a forlorn hope, was
unavailing. Dr. Black was a many-sided man, for, in addition to his medical skill, he was a mechanician of no mean order, and there were’few "jobs " in the house or garage that he could not perform as well as a skilled workman. He was also very fond of antiques, and had furnished a house he had just bought at Norwood with many valuable works of art, but, unfortunately, he died before he could settle in his new home. He leaves a-widow and one little girl aged 6 years. , I am, Sir, yours faithfully, I, A’. R. NITCH. CYRIL A. ’, May 31st, 1919.
I I,
Medical News.
MEDICINE.—By arrangement
with the West India Committee an occasional lecture will be given at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1, Wimple-street, W., on Thursday, June 19th, at 8.30 P.M., by Dr. Louis Sambon on The Sanitation of Tropical Lands, with suggestions based upon his West Indian experience.
SHOWER-BATHS are to be given at the hot mineral bathing establishment to children attending the elementary schools at Bath. Dr. C. Robertshaw Marshall has been appointed water
’
Regius Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Aberdeen by Royal Warrant, in the room of Professor John Theodore Cash, who has resigned. THE BRITISH SCIENCE GUILD. - The annual meeting will be held on June 17th, at 4 P.M., at the Goldsmiths’ Hall, Lord Sydenham presiding. Cards of invitation on application to the secretary at 199, Piccadilly, London, W. 1. ELSIE
THE
INGLIS
UNIT.-This
unit
of
the
Scottish Women’s Hospitals, which was transferred from the Macedonian front to Sarajevo in Bosnia last December, has now been recalled. Before leaving for home all the members of the hospital staff received thE Serbian gold medal for meritorious service. The office of the London Committee of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals at 66, Victoria-street, S.W., was closed on May 31st. ’
THE
Ingleby Lecture
of
the
University
of
Birmingham will be delivered at 4 P.M. on Wednesday, June llth, in the , Medical Lecture Theatre of the University, by Dr. Walter R. Jordan, senior physician to the Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, the subject being Fibrositis, Rheumatism, and Rheumatoid Arthritis in Childhood. ORTHOPEDIC CONFERENCE
’
,
IN
LIVERPOOL. - A
meeting of the British Orthopedic Association was opened at Liverpool on May 30th under the presidency of Sir -Robert Jones, and was attended by representative surgeons from all parts of the country. Papers were read by Mr. Naughton Dunn (Birmingham), Mr. Muirhead Little (London), and others. On Monday a visit was paid to the Alder Hey Military Hospital. LONDON DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-The annual
meeting of the society will be held at St. John’s Hospital, 49, Leicester-square, W.C., on Tuesday, June 17th, at
4.15 P.M., when Dr. S. P. Sunderland will read a paper entitled " The Baths of Old London." An exhibition will follow of cases of rare and interesting skin diseases.
ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE.-A congress of the
Royal Sanitary Institute will be held at Newcastle-onUNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-At examinations held Tyne from July 28th to August 2nd, under the presidency of the Duke of Northumberland. Professor G. Sims Woodhead recently the following candidates were successful:will preside over the section of sanitary science and prevenTHIRD (M.B., B S.) EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL DEGREES. tive medicine, Sir Leslie Mackenzie over that of the hygiene Lena Cecilia Adam and Mary Neville Andrews, London Sch. of Med. of maternity and child welfare, and Sir Thomas Oliver over for Women ; Annie Hardy Banks (honours, distinction in forensic the section of industrial Among the conferences medicine), St. Mary’s Hosp. ; Robert Maitland Beath, Queen’s to be held in connexion hygiene. with the meeting will be one of Univ., Belfast ; Joseph Erwin Adolphe Boucaud, St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Noel St. John Grey Dudley Buxton, Univ. Coll. Hosp. ; John Capelt medical officers of health, to be presided over by’Professor H. R. Kenwood. The lecture to the congress on Marine and Percy Selwyn Clarke, St. Bart.’s Hosp.; Kathleen Mary Cogan, London Sch. of Med. for Women and St. Mary’s Hosp. ; Apollo John Hygiene will be delivered by Sir Robert Hill, R.N., and the Cokkinis (honours, distinction in pathology and surgery), St. lecture’on the Heritage of Health by Sir Robert Mary’s Hosp.; Donald Murray Connan (honours, distinction in popular Philip. forensic medicine), Westminster Hosp. ; Gunaratnam Franklin -
.
Cooke, St. Bart.’s Hosp.; William Edmund Crowther, Leeds Univ.; John Horace Dancy, St. George’s Hosp.; Leonard Snowden Debenham (honours, distinction in medicine and pathology), Guy’s Hosp.; Simon Cyril de Silva Wijeyeratne, Univ Coll. Hosp. ; George Dunluce Eccles, Guy’s Hosp.; Dennis Herbert Geffen (honours, distinction in pathology), Univ. Coll, Hosp.; Paul Currey Gibson, London Hosp. ; Malcolm Gross, Westminster Hosp. ; Ernest Eugène Herga, London Hosp. ; Albert William Holgate, Univ. Coll. Hosp. ; Mary Isabella Hounsfield. London School of Med. for Women ; Philip Hudson, Univ. Coll. Hosp.; Patrick Hughes. St. Mary’s Hosp.; George Maudslay Jackson, Bristol Univ. ; Hassan Kamal, King’s Coll. Hosp ; John lyeil Leitch, St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Ifor Hughes Lloyd, Westminster Hosp. ; Alice Lloyd Lloyd-Williams, London Sch. of Med. for Women and St. Mary’s Hosp.; Kathleen McCrie McKeown and Gladys Mary Miall Smith, London Sch. of Med. for Women ; Allan Hawkins Morley. London Hosp.; John Gtimson Moseley (honours, distinction in medicine), London Hosp. ; Rowland John Perkins (honours, distinction in medicine, forensic medicine, and surgery, University medal). St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Enid Maud Pfeil, London Soh. of Med. for Women ; Henzell Pidcock. St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Julian Lionel Priston, London Hosp. ; Rowan William Revell, Univ. Coll. Hosp. ; Henry Bret Russell, St. Thomas’s Hosp.; Hugh Thornton Rymer. King’s Coll. Hosp.; Albert Ernest Sawday (honours, distinction in surgery), Guy’s Hosp. ; Frederic Agar St. John (honours, distinction in surgery), St. Mary’s Hosp.; Maitland Scott and Cyril Sherris. Guy’s Hosp.; Lily Dorothea Taylor, London Sch. of Med. for Women and Univ. Coll. Hosp.; Benjamin Thomas, St. h’Iary’.; Hoso.; Donald Carmichael Thomas, St. Thomas’s Hosp. ; heginald Frank White, Bristol Univ. ; and Sydney Carver Woodhouse, London Hosp.
Bertram
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH:
ANNUAL
CONFERENCE.-As we have already announced, the annual conference of this institute will be held .from Wednesday, June 25th, to Saturday, June 28th inclusive, at the Mansion House and Guildhall of London under the Presidency of the Lord Mayor. The conference will be devoted to a consideration of problems of reconstruction in relation to public health, and the following, among others, will deliver addresses :On the Work of the Ministry of Health (chairman, Professor W. R. Smith): Sir H. Kingsley Wood, M.P., Dr. F. B. Fremantle, and Lady Barrett, M.D. Prevention of Venereal Disease (chairman, Lord Sydenham of Combe) : Professor J. G. Adami, Sir Malcolm Morris, and Dr. Mary -
Scharlieb.
Housing in Relation to National Health (chairman, Sir Aston Webb): Hope, Professor S. D. Adshead, and Alderman Neville
Dr. E. W.
Chamberlain. -
(chairman, Mrs. Lloyd George): Sir Francis H. Champnevs, Lady Leslie Mackenzie, and Mr. A. Carless. The Tuberculosis Problem Under War Conditions (chairman, Sir William -Osl4er): Dr. H. Hyslop Thomson, Dr. Nathan Raw, M.P., Dr. N. D. Bardswell.
Maternity
and Child Welfare
prominent medical and public men and promised to take part in the discussions. Further particulars may be obtained from the honorary secretaries, the Royal Institute of Public Health, 37, RussellA
large
women
number of
have
square, London, W.C. 1.
LATE
DR.
GUY
BLACK.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF
To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,-No obituary notice has appeared in your columns of the late Dr. Guy Black, who died on April 9th in his fortythird year, and I should like to supply the deficiency, Guy Black was the eldest son of Mr. James Black, late lecturer in anatomy to Westminster Hospital Medical School. He received his education at St. Paul’s School and Dulwich College, and entered St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1894. After taking his diplomas of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., he graduated M.B. Lond. in 1900 and started work in Norwood and Thornton Heath, where he rapidly built up a very estensive practice. Undoubtedly he worked too long and too hard, for not until he had been in practice for 11 years did he take a holiday. This was only a holiday in name, -for on the eve of his departure for Switzerland he poisoned his thumb, and was obliged to return to England at once, where he passed through a serious illness. As the prolonged strain had undermined his constitution he gave up his practice and went to live at Rotherfield, in Sussex, to recuperate, taking locum tenens work for the medical men in the neighbourhood from time to time. When the war broke out in 1914 he took charge,of Surgeon-Major Trouton’s practice, and did the work with his accustomed thoroughness and energy. Once again he succumbed to excessive zeal, and the severity of the influenza epidemic added immensely to the strain. For the last seven ’, months his strength waned, and a gradually increasing anasmia and breathlessness led him to consult a colleague, ’i who recommended an operation. For this purpose he entered ’, St. Thomas’s, but he went downhill so rapidly that the opera- ’, tion, which can only be described as a forlorn hope, was
unavailing. Dr. Black was a many-sided man, for, in addition to his medical skill, he was a mechanician of no mean order, and there were’few "jobs " in the house or garage that he could not perform as well as a skilled workman. He was also very fond of antiques, and had furnished a house he had just bought at Norwood with many valuable works of art, but, unfortunately, he died before he could settle in his new home. He leaves a-widow and one little girl aged 6 years. , I am, Sir, yours faithfully, I, A’. R. NITCH. CYRIL A. ’, May 31st, 1919.
I I,
Medical News.
MEDICINE.—By arrangement
with the West India Committee an occasional lecture will be given at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1, Wimple-street, W., on Thursday, June 19th, at 8.30 P.M., by Dr. Louis Sambon on The Sanitation of Tropical Lands, with suggestions based upon his West Indian experience.
SHOWER-BATHS are to be given at the hot mineral bathing establishment to children attending the elementary schools at Bath. Dr. C. Robertshaw Marshall has been appointed water
’
Regius Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Aberdeen by Royal Warrant, in the room of Professor John Theodore Cash, who has resigned. THE BRITISH SCIENCE GUILD. - The annual meeting will be held on June 17th, at 4 P.M., at the Goldsmiths’ Hall, Lord Sydenham presiding. Cards of invitation on application to the secretary at 199, Piccadilly, London, W. 1. ELSIE
THE
INGLIS
UNIT.-This
unit
of
the
Scottish Women’s Hospitals, which was transferred from the Macedonian front to Sarajevo in Bosnia last December, has now been recalled. Before leaving for home all the members of the hospital staff received thE Serbian gold medal for meritorious service. The office of the London Committee of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals at 66, Victoria-street, S.W., was closed on May 31st. ’
THE
Ingleby Lecture
of
the
University
of
Birmingham will be delivered at 4 P.M. on Wednesday, June llth, in the , Medical Lecture Theatre of the University, by Dr. Walter R. Jordan, senior physician to the Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, the subject being Fibrositis, Rheumatism, and Rheumatoid Arthritis in Childhood. ORTHOPEDIC CONFERENCE
’
,
IN
LIVERPOOL. - A
meeting of the British Orthopedic Association was opened at Liverpool on May 30th under the presidency of Sir -Robert Jones, and was attended by representative surgeons from all parts of the country. Papers were read by Mr. Naughton Dunn (Birmingham), Mr. Muirhead Little (London), and others. On Monday a visit was paid to the Alder Hey Military Hospital. LONDON DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-The annual
meeting of the society will be held at St. John’s Hospital, 49, Leicester-square, W.C., on Tuesday, June 17th, at
4.15 P.M., when Dr. S. P. Sunderland will read a paper entitled " The Baths of Old London." An exhibition will follow of cases of rare and interesting skin diseases.
ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE.-A congress of the
Royal Sanitary Institute will be held at Newcastle-onUNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-At examinations held Tyne from July 28th to August 2nd, under the presidency of the Duke of Northumberland. Professor G. Sims Woodhead recently the following candidates were successful:will preside over the section of sanitary science and prevenTHIRD (M.B., B S.) EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL DEGREES. tive medicine, Sir Leslie Mackenzie over that of the hygiene Lena Cecilia Adam and Mary Neville Andrews, London Sch. of Med. of maternity and child welfare, and Sir Thomas Oliver over for Women ; Annie Hardy Banks (honours, distinction in forensic the section of industrial Among the conferences medicine), St. Mary’s Hosp. ; Robert Maitland Beath, Queen’s to be held in connexion hygiene. with the meeting will be one of Univ., Belfast ; Joseph Erwin Adolphe Boucaud, St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Noel St. John Grey Dudley Buxton, Univ. Coll. Hosp. ; John Capelt medical officers of health, to be presided over by’Professor H. R. Kenwood. The lecture to the congress on Marine and Percy Selwyn Clarke, St. Bart.’s Hosp.; Kathleen Mary Cogan, London Sch. of Med. for Women and St. Mary’s Hosp. ; Apollo John Hygiene will be delivered by Sir Robert Hill, R.N., and the Cokkinis (honours, distinction in pathology and surgery), St. lecture’on the Heritage of Health by Sir Robert Mary’s Hosp.; Donald Murray Connan (honours, distinction in popular Philip. forensic medicine), Westminster Hosp. ; Gunaratnam Franklin -
.
Cooke, St. Bart.’s Hosp.; William Edmund Crowther, Leeds Univ.; John Horace Dancy, St. George’s Hosp.; Leonard Snowden Debenham (honours, distinction in medicine and pathology), Guy’s Hosp.; Simon Cyril de Silva Wijeyeratne, Univ Coll. Hosp. ; George Dunluce Eccles, Guy’s Hosp.; Dennis Herbert Geffen (honours, distinction in pathology), Univ. Coll, Hosp.; Paul Currey Gibson, London Hosp. ; Malcolm Gross, Westminster Hosp. ; Ernest Eugène Herga, London Hosp. ; Albert William Holgate, Univ. Coll. Hosp. ; Mary Isabella Hounsfield. London School of Med. for Women ; Philip Hudson, Univ. Coll. Hosp.; Patrick Hughes. St. Mary’s Hosp.; George Maudslay Jackson, Bristol Univ. ; Hassan Kamal, King’s Coll. Hosp ; John lyeil Leitch, St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Ifor Hughes Lloyd, Westminster Hosp. ; Alice Lloyd Lloyd-Williams, London Sch. of Med. for Women and St. Mary’s Hosp.; Kathleen McCrie McKeown and Gladys Mary Miall Smith, London Sch. of Med. for Women ; Allan Hawkins Morley. London Hosp.; John Gtimson Moseley (honours, distinction in medicine), London Hosp. ; Rowland John Perkins (honours, distinction in medicine, forensic medicine, and surgery, University medal). St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Enid Maud Pfeil, London Soh. of Med. for Women ; Henzell Pidcock. St. Bart.’s Hosp. ; Julian Lionel Priston, London Hosp. ; Rowan William Revell, Univ. Coll. Hosp. ; Henry Bret Russell, St. Thomas’s Hosp.; Hugh Thornton Rymer. King’s Coll. Hosp.; Albert Ernest Sawday (honours, distinction in surgery), Guy’s Hosp. ; Frederic Agar St. John (honours, distinction in surgery), St. Mary’s Hosp.; Maitland Scott and Cyril Sherris. Guy’s Hosp.; Lily Dorothea Taylor, London Sch. of Med. for Women and Univ. Coll. Hosp.; Benjamin Thomas, St. h’Iary’.; Hoso.; Donald Carmichael Thomas, St. Thomas’s Hosp. ; heginald Frank White, Bristol Univ. ; and Sydney Carver Woodhouse, London Hosp.
Bertram
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH:
ANNUAL
CONFERENCE.-As we have already announced, the annual conference of this institute will be held .from Wednesday, June 25th, to Saturday, June 28th inclusive, at the Mansion House and Guildhall of London under the Presidency of the Lord Mayor. The conference will be devoted to a consideration of problems of reconstruction in relation to public health, and the following, among others, will deliver addresses :On the Work of the Ministry of Health (chairman, Professor W. R. Smith): Sir H. Kingsley Wood, M.P., Dr. F. B. Fremantle, and Lady Barrett, M.D. Prevention of Venereal Disease (chairman, Lord Sydenham of Combe) : Professor J. G. Adami, Sir Malcolm Morris, and Dr. Mary -
Scharlieb.
Housing in Relation to National Health (chairman, Sir Aston Webb): Hope, Professor S. D. Adshead, and Alderman Neville
Dr. E. W.
Chamberlain. -
(chairman, Mrs. Lloyd George): Sir Francis H. Champnevs, Lady Leslie Mackenzie, and Mr. A. Carless. The Tuberculosis Problem Under War Conditions (chairman, Sir William -Osl4er): Dr. H. Hyslop Thomson, Dr. Nathan Raw, M.P., Dr. N. D. Bardswell.
Maternity
and Child Welfare
prominent medical and public men and promised to take part in the discussions. Further particulars may be obtained from the honorary secretaries, the Royal Institute of Public Health, 37, RussellA
large
women
number of
have
square, London, W.C. 1.