Tx BRiTh 5 JOU"A2 3I 5 5 FEB. 8,7 1908.1w --.j OBITUARZY. LZDICACL early succeeded in attracting large numbers of students to OBITUARYI his clinic. When the University Was removed to Its preeent quarters, and the clinical tuition transferred from the SIR THOMA.S MoCALL ANDERSON, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., Royal Infirmary to the Western Infirmary, the University REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW; collected a sum of money and founded a Chair of HONORARY PHYSICIAN TO THE KING IN SCOTLAND. Clinical Medicine. To this Chair, McCall Anderson was SIR THOMAS MCCALL ANDERSON died very suddenly at appointed as the first occupant, and was also made si St. Enoch Station Hotel, Glasgow, on the evening of Physician to the Weetern Infirmary. He held the Chair January 25th. He had been in good health during the for the long period of twenty-six years. When Sir William day, and in the evening had attended the annual dinner Gairdner retired in 1900,McCallAnderson was appointedby of the Glasgow Ayrshire Society. After he had proposed, the Crown his successor as Reglas Professor of Medicine. in a short speech, the last toast on the list, he left the He retained this position to the end. Thus, his service as gathering to go home, but on reaching the hall of the a University Profassor continue I for some thirty-four hotel was seized with a sudden attack of cardiac years, and at the time of his death he was almost the fatlure. Several medical men, who were present at the senior member of the University staff. dinner, were immediately summoned, but, despite their Many honours and distinctions came to him during his efforts, Sir Thomas only rallied temporarily, and In a few. long career. In 1897 he was appointed by the War Office minutes succumbed to a second attack of heart failare Examtner In Medicine for the British and Indian Medical before he could be Service. He was ex- removed home. The tremelygratifiedwitli end thus came with this appointmen t, as startling suddenness he wasj the first phy- as It was not gener- sician to hold it who ally isuspected that wsnot enagaged In there was anythings Lnon practice seriously amiss0re with v 9 , S held the Examiner- his health. His im- ship from 1897 to mediate circle of ti 1901, and one of the friends were, indeed, l_ immediate effects aware that last year-4 this appointment was he had an illnehis that the Imperial which caused siome medical services be- anxiety at the time, gan to attract more but it was hoped l attention from Glas- that the prolonged gow graduates, who6 holiday which he entered in larger took last isummer numbers. He was had resntored him to elected Dean of the a satisfactory state of Faculty of Medicine health. To make in Glasigow Univer- this reist as thorough sity in 1899, and as possible, he ob- represented the Uni- tatned leave of ab- versity at the sence from his pro- National Conference fessorial and hos- for the Prevention pital work during of Consumption and the summer session at the Intrnational of 1907. He resumed Congress of Medicine, duty at Pthe s com- Paris, in 1900. Three mencement of the years later he was present winter ses- elected to represent sion, and had been the University of able tD carry on hi s Glasgow on the wor:eRwithoutIfny General Medical apparent difficulty. Council, where he Thomas McCall proved an assiduous Andersion was born representative w h o on June 9th, 1836. worthily looked after His fami-ly was wdl1 the interests of the known In Glasgow, t Scottish medical and had for' manyedicieS THOian MASdica A.CALL ANDERSON. sIiyfb schools. He had yearsj beenprom~inent previously served as in local -affairs. His father, Dr. Alexander Dunlop President of the Medico-Chirurgical and other medical Anderson, a former President of the Faculty of Societies in Glasgow, while In 1888 the greater honour Physicians and Surgeons, was one of the leading of the Presidency of the Medical Section of the British 'nhysiclans, while a grand-uncle was Professior of Medical Association had been conferred on him. In Natural- Philosophy at the University from 1757 to 1905 his eminent services were fittingly recognized by 1796. This Profeissor Anderson? left money to found the King conferring on him a knighthood, and a couple the Andersionian College, of Which the medical depart- of years later he was appointed one of His Majesty's ment still survives. Sir Thomas received hiis general Honorary Physicians in Scotland, in place of Sir William -education In Edinburgh, but returned to Glasgo w for his Gairdner. mnedical training. His career as a student was extremely Apart from his professorial and teaching duties, Sir brilliant, and he graduated M.D. in 1858 "1with honours." Thomas was actively engaged in many directions. For a Alfter serving for two years as; a resident medical officer number of years he acted as medical adviser to the In the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, he went abroad for a Scottish Imperlal Insurance Company. For nearly fifty couple of years, and during this time studied under many years he was Physician to the Hospital for Skin Diseases, of the most celebrated teachiers of the time in Paris, aud was also connected with many other institutions. Wuirzburg, Berlin, and Vienna. For many years he was actively engaged in a large con- Soon after his return to Glasgow he was appoginted sulting practice. His contributions to medical literature to the Chair of Medicine at the:-Andersonian Medical were numerous. Among his most important works are College, and shortly after became one of the Physlicans the well-known Lectures on Clinical Medicine (1887); to the Royal Infirmary. As a clinical teacher he was Curability of Attacks of Tubercular Peritonitis and Acute successful from themverybeghining, and rapidly established iPthisis; $S¶pki(itie Affections of the Nervous Systen (1889); a great reputation asi a clear expositor of medicine. He and Contributions to Clinical Medtcine (1898). In addition Tm BRmax 356 U19DICAL.UDtCALJOUZMkL1JOURNIl OBITUARY. [FBn. 8,i. 8. to his well-known Treatiie on Diseases of the 7kin, he pub. most important features of clinical medicine. He col- lished eeveral books on skin diseases, and was recognized lected for all of us, and demonstrated to us convlncingly at home and abroad as one of the-leading authorities and briefly, evidences of dieease that, to judge from his on skin diseases. biilliant summaxy, must have cost him-much preliminary Bat McCall Andereon's fame will rest more on his preparation.- He spared himself in no way, and he stimu- succesS as a clinical -teacher than as a medical author. lated his class to woik by that very fact. He had a great faculty, for picking out the -important When I came later to know him as his Assistant, the points in a case and demonstrating them in a clear, con- deep impression that he had left upon me as a student was vincing fashion to his students. An excellent organizer, further deepened. His powEr of organization, his arrange- everything was perfectly arranged for-the proper carrying ment of the numerous duties of his different classes, 6n -of the large class. By avoiding hair-splitting over indicated a rare grasp and a rare control. His affection refinements of physical signs and confining himself to the for his work was shown by his aSsiduity. Scarcely, In essential features' he was able to grapple with a complex many years, have I known him to miss a morning at the case-in a broad-minded fashion which rendered it intel- Infirmary, and never, in many years, have I known him Jigible to the youngest student. His power of organiza- to leave a duty undone. tion and faculty of condensing his observations enabled Of my pereonal relations with: him it is impossible for him to demonstrate several cases within a short time. me here to speak, btut the strongest tribute to his character To students going up for an examninition this faculty of may be found in -the esteem in which he was universally covering the -groutnic held bymany genera- proved very useful. tions cf students, and As a tracher McCall by the painful shock Anderson depended with which his pre- chiefly on demonetra- sent classes heard of tions. He did not his sudden and tragie use bedside instruc- death. tion to any great ex- tent, and was not One who was aEso- a great believer in ciated with Sir ward visita. HIis Thomas McCall An- very Euccess as Ft dersonformany years teacher prevented writes: T'he death of him from using bed- Sir Thomas McCall side teaching, as his Anderson has taken class was always so from us one who big that special has long held a fore- arrangements re- most place in derma- quired to be made tology. He had a If all the students world-wide reputa- were tobenefit. Per- tion as an authority haps the only serilous on diseases of the flaw in his teaching skin. Early in his was the fact that the career he took a spe- progress of the case cial Interest in this from day to day was branch of medicine, not sufficiently in- and during his two sisted on. years spent on the As a physician Continent before set- McCall Anderson pos- tling i n practice sessed to a remark- studied under Hebra. able degree ' the In 1861, Sir Thomas, clinical instinct." 'His along with Dr. accurate power of ob- Andrew B. Buchanan, servation, retentive was associated with memory, and shrewd Mr. James Grahame judgement made him and others in found- an accurate and suc- ing the Glasgow cessful diagnostician. Hospital for Diseases In the treatment of of the Skin. The difficult cases his early' death of Dr. g r e a t exkperience Buchanan left 8I r made his advice of Thomas McCall An- value, and many, a derson sole physician puzzled practitioner has benefited by his helpful sug- of the institution, which position he filled until the gestions. end. During the forty-seven yearS of its existence Sir As a professor McCall Anderson stood somewhat aloof Thomas has been the guiding spirit of the hospltal, and to from his students, lut no one who knew him or sought his constant supervision and untiring interest In the hts aid could fail to be Impressed by the kindly, patients and students it owes in largest measure Its sue- courteous, and considerate 'manner in which he was eess: The pharacteristics of Bir Thomas's teachingwere received and helped. nowhere seen to better advantage than in the Skin Hospital, and In the wards associated with it in Dr. WILLIAM. R. JACK, AssiEtant to the Professor of the Western Infirmary. His ripe experience and Practice of Medicine, University of Glasgow,writes: As one power of concentration enabled him to demonstrate who from his student days has known Sir Thomas McCall in a clear, striklng, and practical manner the essential Anderson, and has thereafter been associated with him in fVatures of the numerous cases coming before his large his work of teaching, I desire to add my trlbute to hia class. He always laid great stress on'the- necessity of memory. When I became a student In his class at the attention to the details of treatment, and to this fact was Westein Infirmary I was entering upon the subject of due much of his success as a therapeutist. He was closely clinical medicine, and looked up toamy future chief as one in touch with the latest advances in medical science, who possessed a knowledge that I could not hope to reach. and prompt in testlig new methods of treatment which As my woxk under him progressed from day to day I found seemed likely to prcve of value. At a time when tuber- that he brought me nearer to his knowledge, and systema culin had fallen into disfavour with the profession Sir 'tized for all of us much that had been hitherto left vague. Thomas McCall Anderson advocated its use, in an address He knew, as no other teacher of my earlier years has to the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and knowo, how tb give to each one of us an impreseion of the Ireland, entitled, A Plea for the more Geeneral Use of FaB. 8, io8.] OBITUARY. J=A 357 Taberculin by the Peotesslon. In 1887 Sir Thomas of the United States but to surgery. He had been suffer- McCall Anderson published his well-known Treatise on ing from nephritis and heart disease for some months. He Diseases of the Skin. This was a standard work, and has was of Swiss origin, having been born in the Canton of a deservedly high reputation. A second edition was St Gall, Switzerland, in 1844. Ia 1863 his family published in 1894. His other dermatological work3 emigrated to America, and he was brought up on a farm were: On Psoriasis and Ltpra; Parasitic Affections of the In Wisconsin. He took the degree of Doctor of Medicine Skin; Treatment of Diseases of the Skin, witm an Analysis at Chicago Medical College in 1868, after which he went to vf 11,000 Cases; On Eczena. Germany for a time, working chiefly at Munich. On his return he practised hisprofession for a time at Milwaukee. He was appointed Surgeon-General of the Wisconsin J. BELL PETTIGREW, M.D., F.R.S., National Guard. In 1884 he was elected to the Chair of PROFESSOR OF MEDICINB AND ANATOMY, ST. ANDREWS. Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, DR. J. BELL PETTIGREW, Chandos Professor of Medicine Chicago. In 1890 he became professor of practical and and Anatomy In the University of St. Andrews, died on clinical surgery In the Rush Medical College of January 30th, after a long illness, in his seventy-fourth the same city. He was also Professor of Surgery in year. He was born in Lanarkshire, and studied medictne the Ohicago Polyclinic Hospital and of military surgery at Edinburgh, where his career as a student was very in the University of Chicago. He was Surgeon-General distinguished. In 1862 he was aspointed Assistant of the Illinois National Guard, and was the first President Curator of the Hunterian Museum, London, where he of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United made the beautiful dissections of the muscular fibres of States, the organization of which was due to his Initiative the heart familiar to students of anatomy. In 1868 he and energy. returned to Edinburgh to take up the duties of Carator of Dr. Senn contributed largely to surgical literature. In the Museum,of the Royal College of Surgeons. On the addition to a vast number of papers, he published several death of Professor Oswald Home Bell in 1875, Dr. Petti- books, among which may be mentioned Principles of grew was appointed to the Chandos Chair of Medicine and Surgery, Practical Suryery, and Pathology and Surgical Anatomy at St. Andrews, and continued to disebarge all Treatment of Tumours. the duties of the professorship until a few years ago. For Of late years he had travelled extensively and recorded -more than a quarter of a century Professor Pettigrew was his impresstons in books which everywhere reveal the eye Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and representative of of a trained observer. the University on the General Medical Council. Dr. Senn was a Delegate of the United States at the Professor Pettigrew's earliest and perhaps most im- International Medical Congresses of Berlin, ! Moscow, portant contributions to science were embodied In his Madrid, and Lisbon. He also repreEented his adopted Papers on the arrangements of muscular fibres In country at the International Medical Congress held at vent±icles of the vertebrate heart, and on the muscular St. Petersbu-rg in 1901. At the time.of his death he had arrangements of the bladder and prostate, published in Cross the Philosophical Transactions for 1864 and 1867. For the received the Order of Merit from the Japanese Red latter research he received the Godard Prize from the Society with the sanction of the Emperor. He had also French Academy of Science in 1874. He contributed recently been elected an honorary member of the Royal largely to the Edinburgh Medical Journal, the Encyclopaedia Medical Society of Budapest. .Britannica, and other publications. Professor Pettigrew took a great interest in a6rial navigation and made many IT Is wlth great regret that we anvounce the Tdeath of experiments with flying machines, most of which were Dr. ALFRED LANGSTON SCOTT, of Ealing, at the early age fashionedby his own hands. His work on Animal Locmna- of 48, which occurred on January 25th. For several weeks io, published in 1873 in the International Science Series, past his friends noticed that he had' looked ill and over- was for many years the standard work on the subject. He worked, but his sudden death from perforating gastric was also very musical and had a fine collection of violins. ulcer came as a great shock to all, especially as he had been carrying on his professional work until within a few days of FREDERICK WILLOOKS, M.D., F.R.C.P., his death. Dr. Scott was the son of the Rev. W. L. Scott, LATE PHYSICIAN TO CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL. Vicar of Dunmow, Essex. He entered at Guy's Hospital, WE regret to record the death, at the age of 53, ot and qualified M R.C.S.Eng. and L.S.A.Lond. in 1884. Frederick Willocks, M.D., F.R.C.P., late of 14, Mandeville While at Guy's Hospital he held the post of Ophthalmic Place, W., which took place at Burnham, Somerset, on Assistant, and later became House Surgeon to the Brighton January 25th, after two years' illness. and Hove Lying-in Institution for Women. In 1888 he Dr. Willcocks was, at the time of his retirement from settled in practice In Ealing, and was elected on the staff practice in 1906 owing to ill-health, a Physician and of Ealing Cottage Hospital. He also held the appoint- Lecturer at Charing Cross Hospital, and also a Physician ment of Medical Referee to the Prudential Assurance at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children. On resigning Company, and was Surgeon to the Foresters, etc., and the latter appointment he was placed by the Governors on Chairman of the Ealing Division of the British Medical the consulting staff. Association. For the past fifteen years he has taken the Dr. Wlllcocks, who was educated at Sherborne School, keenest interest In the Ealing Hospital, and, as one of the had a distinguished career as a student at King's College senior members of the staff, his advice at committee Hospital, becoming senior scholar in 1877, and filling the meetings, at which he was a very constant attendant, was posts successively of House Physician and Medical Regls- much valued. At the time of his death he was engaged trar. He gradmated M.B. at London University in 1878, in the exacting duties of a large general practice. In with high honours, and took the M.D. degree two years private life he was a man whom to know was to love and later. He became F.R.C.P. in 1893. respect, whilst his honesty of purpose and willingness to On leaving King's College Hospital he joined tbe help his brother practitioners, often at times when medical stafg of Charing Cross Hospital. He filled on he was sadly overworked, will make his untimely death a several occasions the office of Examiner in Materia Medica very real loss. It is perhaps by his poor patients that his for the Conjoint Board and was a member of many- of the loss will be most keenly felt. Invarlably kind and societies connected with the profession. He made several sympathetic in manner, his presence in the sick room has contributions to the medical journals, Including papers been to many a sufferer a source of strength and comfort. recording the results of investigations .by him on the A staunch Christian, a sidesman of his church, where he plthology of anaemia, and (in conjunction with his was a regular attendant, and a very willing worker In friend the late Dr. Baxter of King's College) on clinical church matters, few men have shown a brighter example haemometry. of a Christian life. The funeral service at St. John's As a student Dr. Willcocks gained some reputation as Church, Ealing, was most Impressive. Rich and 'poor an athlete, and was a winner in the United Hospitals' alike filled the church to pay their last respects. Dr. Athletic sports. Scott leaves a widow and six children, to wthom we offer our sincere sympathy in their bereavement. NIOHOLAS SENN, M.D., PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, BUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHICAGO. I WE regret to record the death of Dr. BiRcH, of The Tnlc death of Professor Nicholas Senn, which occurred- on Litten,-Newbury, which occurred on January 24th after January 2nd, is a loss not only to the medical profession a long ilInees. A son of Mr. George Birch, J.P., of Lichfield,