572 THE CANADIAN MEDIcAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL [Nov. 1934 ~~~~[Nov. 1934 Obttuariez Dr. Herbert Melville Little, of Montreal, died intendency of the Montreal Maternity Hospital. There suddenly on October 11th, aged 57 years. Dr. Little his enthusiasm and scientifie training were soon recog- was born in London, Ont., in 1877 and took his Arts nized by the staff and Ladies' Board of Management course at the University of Toronto. He was a and he was largely if not entirely responsible for the graduate in Medicine of McGill University, 1901, and rapid growth and development of that institution. carried out his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Later he received an appointment to the Medical Hospital, the Montreal Maternity Hospital, the Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, and Tiibingen Frauenklinik, at Munich, Vienna and Paris at shortly afterwards (1913) was made an Assistant Gynaco. various times between 1901 and 1908. He subsequently logist to the Montreal General Hospital. A few years obtained the diplomas of member of the American later he was promoted to full professorship at the Uni- Gynaecological Association, F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. (C.) and versity and was appointed Gynaecologist with the F.C.O.G. (Eng.). Montreal General Hospital. As secretary of the Medical Dr. Little was a valued member of the Editorial Board of the latter institution he showed his great ;9?4rd Qf this Jownal rind of the Association. executive abilitv. He was a member of the Montreal We have received the following A-reciation from Medico-Chirurgical Society, the Canadian Medical Asso- tDrs. Campbell hloward and A. H. Gordon. ciation, and was first vice-president of the American "The sudden death of Dr. Herbert M. Little camne Association of Obstetricians, Gyniecologists and Ab- as a great shock to the medical profession and to the dominal Surgeons. He was also a Foundation Fellow of public at large in Montreal and Canada. Seldom has the British College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. His there been such an outward and visible expression of social proclivities found vent in the Canadian Club, the the respect and love for one individual as was shown University Club, and the Mount Royal Club, of Montreal. lby his many friends from every walk of life at the Doctors as a rule do not live very long, and the age funeral held on Saturday morning at Christ of fifty-seven would be an average one for medical men service, on this continent, and so Dr. Herbert Little would thus have reached his allotted span. But to those who knew him his life seemed scarcely to have begun. For he had the gift of exuberant youthfulness, which 'age could not wither nor custom stale'. The spirit of the boy never left him. That spirit that could throw a verbal missile at assumed dignity with the accuracy of a snow)ll striking the helmet of a fat policeman, was the same spirit which sent him tilting against tradition in his special field of surgery, and which won him a place among the first in his profession on this continent. A spirit like his made it impossible for him to be a Laodicean; no one ever found him lukewarm; hot or cold he was, and for or against, but never facing both ways. The friends of his youth were the friends of his later years, and friendship with him was 'not a habit, it was a gift'. His friendship crossed all social, academic and racial boundaries; there was no group in which he was not at home, and none was so great in any group that he was safe from a shaft of his scintillating impudence. The keenness of his wit was a by-word among those who knew him, and in their jeua d 'esprit it was his Parthian shot that oftenest ended the contest; yet one always forgot and forgave, because there was no malice nor meanness in his truly fine character. One trait which won him new friends and endeared old ones to him was his un- failing generosity. He was generous with his time, with his means, and with his influence to everyone whom these things might help. These are some of the reasons why Christ Church Herbert Melville Little Cathedral was crowded to the doors when people gatlhered to pay their last tribute to one who had in a Church Cathedral. Doctors, nurses, students and pa- moment been taken away. But another reason was that tients were there, of course, in greatest numbers. the man who had gone had given his life generously, as However, members of the Board of Governors of the he had done of his other gifts, and that from him Judy University, aiid of both large hospitals were largely O 'Grady in her day of trouble had received the self-same represented. The Bench, and the Bar, the Army, the care as had the Colonel 's Lady, and with the care each Club and the Business World bowed their heads in had received a share of the cheer and love of life with respect. What was perhaps even more touching was which he himself was filled. the large number of his patients and their families Like Matthew Arnold he was spared from every walk of life who showed their loss and 'the whispering, crowded room, appreciation of his many past kindnesses, helpful The friends who come and gape and go; advice and skilful care. The ceremonious air of gloom- Shortly after Dr. Little entered the McGill Medical All, which makes death a hideous show! 'I Faculty as a student in 1897 he made a place for him- self in Montreal. He became interested in all forms of student activities, particularly in the McGill Cricket Dr. Nelson Henry Beemer, of Toronto, who was Club, where as 'Tiny Little' he was a universal favourite. for half a century Superintendent of the Ontario Hos- Upon graduation in 1901 he went to the Johns Hopkins pital at Mimico, died recently at his home in Toronto, Hospital and served on the staff of the late John Whit- in his 83rd year. ridge Williams as intern, assistant-resident and resident Born in Waterford, Norfolk County, in 1853, Dr. until he returned to Montreal to take over the super- Beemer was educated at Waterford public school, Nov. OBITUARIES 573 Nov. 1934] OBITUARIES 573 Brantford High School, and the University of Toronto, Berthier, studied at the seminary of Joliette, and took from which he graduated in 1874. his medical degree at Laval University, Quebec, in 1906. For four years after his graduation he practised Dr. Denis practised first at Notre-Dame-des-Bois, then medicine in Wyoming, Lambton County, and in 1878 settled in the northern part of Montreal. He had been he was appointed assistant physician to the Ontario Liberal member for St. Denis since 1921, and had been Hospital at London. extremely active in political life. In 1886 he acted as Medical Superintendent of the Ontario Hospital at Hamilton, later returning to Dr. Jean Paul Grenier. The medical profession of London, where he was Medical Superintendent until Quebec have just lost one of their younger doctors in 1894. Then he was appointed Superintendent of the the person of Dr. Jean Paul Grenier. Dr. Grenier died Mimico Hospital. on September 24th at the early age of 39, and has left During his stay at London, he was examiner in behind him a record of brilliant and promising career. mental diseases at Toronto University, and, for three He was born in the city of Quebec, graduated at Laval years prior to 1928, he lectured in mental diseases to University, Quebec, in 1919, whence he went to New the medical school at Western University. York and Paris for post-graduate courses and returned During the war he was honorary consultant of to practise, in Quebec. He leaves a wife and two the Pension Board of Canada, and in 1924 was presi- daughters. dent of the Ontario Neuro-psychiatric Association. He married Mary A. W. Laing, who predeceased Dr. John Caithness Inmes, of Port Credit, Ont., him seven years ago, and is survived by two children, died at his home on September 28, 1934, in his 85th Arthur A. Beemer and Mrs. Edgar Day Knap, both of year. He was born in Lawrence Kirk, Kincardineshire, Toronto. Scotland, and graduated from Aberdeen College and Edinburgh University. He practised in Derbyshire, Dr. William Alexander Campbell, of Ponoka, Alta., England, for a number of years, coming to Canada in died in Edmonton on September 6, 1934, after an 1904 and starting a practice at Port Credit. He retired illness of eighteen months, the result of cerebral 10 years ago. He was a Mason. Dr. Innes is survived thrombosis. In the death of Dr. Campbell the com- by his widow, Anne Alethea Hoskyns, and two sons, munity loses a family physician of the type which Captains W. C. C. Innes, Port Credit, and J. P. D. Innes, is so fast disappearing; it loses a personal friend of Montreal. the very highest quality; and it loses a man whom it has seen fit to honour politically. Dr. David J. Johnston, of Iroquois, Ont., died on Born on March 31, 1873, of Scotch-Canadian September 10, 1934. He was 73 years of age. He had parentage at Naim, Middlesex Co., Ont., Dr. Campbell practised for forty-seven years at Iroquois, where he was educated in Strathroy public and high schools, was highly respected. He was a graduate of the Uni- the Jameson Avenue Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and versity of Toronto (M.B., 1887).