APIUx; I2^19., OBITUARY. [H:DITAL 931I ceived the consideration it deserved. To my mind, what seems most necessary is, first of all, to educate our own edu- OBITUARYI cators. And to ensure this nothing could be more welcome than arenewal of that vigorous crusade, first initiated by the CHRISTIAN FENGER, M.D., late Mr. Ernest Hart, and with which his name is so honour- Professor of Clinical Surgery, Rush Medical College, Chicago. ably associated.--I am, etc., DR. CHRISTIAN FENGIER, the well-known surgeon of Chicago, London, April 7th. M. L. DHINGRA, M.D. died recently of pneumonia, in the 62nd year of his age. He was of Danish origin, and was born in Copenhagen in DIET AND CANCER. I840. While still a medical student he served as Surgeon SIR,-Sir William Banks still adheres to his contention that in the Schleswig-Holstein campaign in I864. He took his because the increase in the flesh food consumed in the degree at the University of Copenhagen in I867, and then Western world is commensurate with the increase in the served as assistant in Dr. Wilhelm Meyer's ear clinic for incidence of cancer mortality that therefore flesh eating is a two years. He afterwards served throughout the Franco- cause of cancer. Prussian war as Surgeon in the Red Cross Ambulance In a paper that I read before the British Medical Associa- Corps. From I871 to 1874 he was Prosector and from i873 tion at Ipswich I compared the cancer mortality among some to I874 Privat Docent in the Copenhagen City Hospital. In of the flesh-eating races and flesh-eating animals with those 1875 he accepted the post of Surgeon to the Khalifa district races and animals which were more or less fruitarian, and the of Cairo, and became a member of the Sanitary Council. result seemed to show that flesh eating per se is not a cause of In 1877 Dr. Fenger went to the United States and settled cancer. I ventured to add that the evidLence, both theoretical in Chicago, where he became a member of the County and practical, tended to show that it was the overfeeding of Hospital Staff. Two years later he was appointed Curator animals, and the retention in their tissues of the products of of the Rush Medical College Museum, and in 1884 he was decomposition, which made the eating of the animal food at elected Professor of Clinical Surgery in the College of present upon the market, productive of an unstable cell Physicians and Surgeons. In 1895 he became Professor of equilibrium, which was the forerunner of the cancer incidence. Clinical Surgery in the Chicago Medical College, and in That the same thing applied in a lesser degree to vegetables, 1899 he was appointed to the chair of Clinical Surgery in the and that therefore the aim of the future should be to produce Rush Medical College. At the time of his death he was healthy animals and healthy vegetables, and to discontinue President of the Chicago Medical Society, and was a member entirely the present system of overfeeding both, merely to of various American and European medical associations. secure the maximum of market weight in the minimum of During his residence in Chicago he served on the staff of time. nearly all the leading hospitals. My late tour in India has strengthened my opinion that Before leaving Denmark Professor Fenger contributed this view is correct, because I found that cancer was several valuable papers to the Nordiskt mediciniskt Arkiv, practically nonexistent in all those areas where the vegeta- one of his earliest contrlbutions being on stenosis of the pul- tion was sparse and where the animals used for food had had monary artery in I873. During his residence in the United to live hardly, while it was more prevalent where the vegeta- States he contributed a number of articles to the American tion was ranker and where animals used for food were more medical journals, most of them being on purely surgical highly foddered.-I am, etc., topics. In conjunction with Dr. Samuel C. Stanton, he wrote Harley Street, W., April 3rd. JOSIAH OLDEIELD. the chapter on diseases of the ureter in the Amertcan Text- book of Genito-urinary Diseases. According to American Medicine, Fenger, next to the elder CRICKET ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE ANNUAL Gross, probably did more to advance surgical pathology than MEETING AT MANCHESTER. any other one man in the United States. Much of the coaserva- SIR,-At a meeting held yesterday of the Cricket Sub- tive treatment of renal and ureteral conditions practised by committee of the Local Entertainments Committee, it was American surgeons can be traced to him. One of the decided that the annual fixture, Manchester Medicals v. honours of which he was proudest was the decoration of the Liverpool Medicals, which occurs alternately at Manchester Knighthood of the Danish flag conferred upon him by and Liverpool, should take place this year on the Wednesday, Christian IX of Denmark. July 30th, in the week which the British Medical Association meets here, and also that a match be arranged for Friday, August ist, between the Owens College Club and members of BONVILLE BRADLEY FOX, M.A., M.D.OxoN. -the Association. IT is with sincere regret that we have to announce the death I should be glad if members coming to Manchester, and of Dr. Bonville Fox, of Brislington, only a few days after that willing to play in the latter match, would write to me at of his more widely known brother, Dr. E. Long Fox. The their earliest convenience. deceased was the son of Dr. Frances Ker Fox by his second The Owens College Club is a"'strong-one, and it'is to be wife, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Charles Bradley, and hoped that we may be able to raise a team capable of giving sister of the wife of Dr. Long Fox. them a good game.-I am, etc., Born on July 29th, 1852, Bonville Fox was first sent to Mr. W. H. HENSHAW, Hudson's school at Manilla Hall, Clifton, and subsequently Honorary Secretary Cricket Subcommittee. 3o, Swan Street, to Marlborough College in I865, though his stay there was of Manchester, April 8th. brief duration owing to illness. After receiving further SOUTH AFRICAN CIVIL SURGEONS. education at the house of his uncle (William Bradley)-at St. SIR,-The second annual dinner of South African civil sur- Leonards, he matriculated at: Christ Church, Oxford, in 1870, geons will be held at the Hotel Cecil on Monday, June 9th, at taking his M.A. in 1879. His medical course was taken at St. 7.30 p.m. Sir Frederick Treves, K.C.V.O., will take the George's Hospital, and in 1878 he took the diploma of the chair. The price of tickets will be half-a-guinea. On account Royal College of Surgeons. The following year he took the of the difficulty of obtaining the names and addresses of civil M.B. at Oxford, and in 1882 the M.D. All Dr. Fox's train- surgeons who-have returned from the war, we hope that ing, as well as his inclinations, were towards the treatment all who intend to be present will communicate with us as of mental disorders. His father was a very successful pro- soon as pos3ible, and urge others to do the same. Arrange- prietor of Brislington House, and it was only natural that ments are being made, as last year, to seat 200.-We are, etc., one of the sons should follow. C. GORDON WATSON, Hon. Dr. Long Fox having started as a physician in Clifton, it FRANciJs E. FREMANTLE, f Secs. fell to Dr. Bonville Fox to first assist and subsequently follow 39, Moore Street, Lennox Gardens, S.W., April 8th. his father in partnership with his brother Charles in the charge of the private asylum. As a preliminary, Dr. Bonville PELLAGRA is said to be becoming increasingly prevalent in Fox spent six months as Assistant Resident Medical Officer at South Tyrol. Quite recently the Neue Freie Presse recorded the Bethlehem Hospital, and afterwards became Resident-at three cases of suicide due to mental disorder which had Brislington.. On the death of his father he became joint pro- developed as the result of braia lesions caused by pellagra. prieter with his brother Dr. Charles Fox, and, since the retire-