114 JULY 1S, 1931] BUCKSTON BROWNE SURGICAL RESEARCH FARM [rM E BRITISH

THE BUCKSTON BROWNE SURGICAL arofsgeycarried on, with great benefit to the science and to the RESEARCH FARM The Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, which properly regards itself as the custodian of surgical advance FOUNDATION STONE CEREMONY in this country, has now recognized that for the further expansion of surgery there must be a correlation of the The fouindation stone of the Buckston - Browne Surgical various results from methods of inquiry in three direc- Research Farm at Downe, near Farnborough, Kent, was tions: (1) clinical research carried out in the wards and laid by Lord TMoynihan, President of the Royal College in the operation theatres of hospitals; (2) biological and of Surgeohis of England, oIn July 8th. The manner in pathological research carried out also in hospitals and in which this great project has matured, the purc'.ase of the special institutions; and (3) research upon animals. In Downe property through the liberality of Mr. George accordance with the Council's will, laboratories have Buckston Browne, and the planning of this biological been built and old laboratories extended in our buildings research station, were described in a leading article in in Lincoln's Inn Fields; there men have been set to work the Journal of July 4th (p. 23). The stone which has upon lines which they themselves desire, and there men been laid will form part of the porch of the large resi- have learned " the religion of research," and the high dential building, in the style of a Kentish farmhouse, value of the experimental method in connexion with the which will house the research workers, as well as those science and art of surgery. Now, owring to the great in charge of the laboratories and the animals. The beneficence of a Fellow of our-College, we are here laying building of the animal houses and the experimental to-day the foundation stone of an institute for experimental laboratories has not yet begull; iindeed, it is remarkable research, which will add the one remaining event required that so much progress has already been achieved, for for the proper development of surgery in this country. Mr. Buckston Browne's beniefaction was onily made knowni Many nmemorials are raised to men, sometimes after to the College in their death, sometimes the early part of the during their lives. present year, and the Such memorials may site, wvhich adjoins | .... be cast in bronze or the Down HIouise graven in stone. Some property, cver to he are marked by a associated Nvi t h title, others by a Darwin, was selected decoration. But the o-nly in MI-arch...... finest m-iemorials of In addition to the all, we think, are President, the Vice- ...... ~~~~~~~~~~~raised up in the grate- Presidents (Mr. C. H. ful hearts of men and Fagge.and Mr. R. P. womnen from whom a iRowlands) and io very heavy load of of the members of the suffering and sorrow Cunicil journeyved to hias been lifted. The Downe. The President BULcKSooN 13!.OWINE SUeRICAL RLSEALRCI 1FARM DOWNE, KENT. finest memorial which and Vice-Presidents can be raised to any wore their gowns, and the procession to the marquee was man during his lifetime is surely an institute within which preceded by the College mace. A brief service of dedica- inquiiry will take place resulting in permanent benefits tion was held by the Dean of Westminster, who, after conferred upon mankind. To-day we are recognizing the Lord Moynihan had laid the stone in place, pronounced fact that MIr. Buckston Browne takes his place among the words: " Here may knowledge be increased; study those who may be regarded and honoured for ali time as fostered; skill developed; to the prevention and relief of immortal benefactors. I will ask my old friend to say suffering, the service of our fellow men, and the good of a few words of greeting. the human race throughout the world." SPEECH BY THIE DONOR LORD MOYNIHAN'S ADDRESS Mlr. BUCKSTON BROWNE said: :Nature's discipline does Lord MOYNIHIAN addressed the company as follows: not consist in a blow and a word. It does not consist The Royal College of Surgeons of England to-day enters even in a blow and a word some time afterwards. It upon a new career. Hitherto it has fulfilled its statutory consists in the blow without the word, and, as Professor duties to the satisfaction of all. Henceforth it will Huxley told us years ago, it is for us to find out why assumne fresh and wider responsibilities. Since Lister's our ears are boxed. When Jane Austen wished to pour day the main activities of surgeons have bee.n directed tontempt upon one of the creations of her won(lerful to the recognition of disease in more and more precocious brain, she said that he was a man without any curiosity. stages, and to the planning of methods of approach to We who are here to-day recognize as our surgical patron and attack upon organs formerly inaccessible. Little by saint John Hunter, who was a man devoured by an little it has become evident that no region of the body insatiable curiosity. I am sure that had John Hunter can stand aloof from our inquiry, that Lister has indeed occupied the position in the Garden of Eden that Adam givTen us a weapon which allows and even encourages us occupied, he would have taken a very large bite out of to find a path into territories which disease is able to the apple. It is a very interesting fact that here we have enter. Surgery has become, then, not onlly the strongest been able to bring the great genius of John HIunter, who of therapeutic measures, but also a method of research- did so much for the alleviation of the suffering of the a method by which, during the lifetime of the ind(ividual, human body, alongside that great genius Charles Darwin, the variouls stages and courses of disease can be investi- the emancipator-as I like to think of him-f the human gated. Many new lessons have been learnt in that most mind. These two great men are brought together to-day procreanlt laboratory, the operation theatre, and while on this really sacred spot in Kent. this has been proceeding, animal experimentation, the -Just one personal word. When I was a student I could safety of which we also owe to Lister, has been widely not walk for ten minutes without meeting some unhappy NOVA ET VETERA M THIE bRTTISN 115 JULY 18, 1931] L MEDICAL JourNAL face scarred by small-pox. The mortality from small- one of the honorary editors, spoke of improvements pox in those days was terrible. To-day we hardly ever made and contemplated in the society's Proceedings. meet a pock-marked face, and why? Because of the The report having been adopted, a ballot was taken glorious work done by one for the election of unofficial members of council, 1931-32. of John Huinter's pupils, The following were elected presidents of Sections (that Edward Jenner-work done on a farm, a research farm is, vice-presidents of the society) for the next session: as this is going to be. With regard to myself and- the too kind words which Lord Moynihan has spoken, I can Mr. Ramsey Phillips (Anaesthetics), Mr. Cccil Wakeley (Clinical), Dr. J. A. Arkwright (Comparative Medicine), Dr. only appear before you this afternoon as one of the most A. M. H. Gray (l)ermatology), Sir Henry Gauvain (Disease fortunate of men. I have had a wonderful opportunity, in Children), Professor M. Greenwvood (Epidemiology anid State and I am grateful to my College for it. Under the aegis Medicine), Dr. R. 0. Moon (History of Medicine), Mr. WV. G. of that great and enthusiastic surgeon Howarth (Laryngology), Dr. H. Morley Fletcher (Medicine), Lord Moynihan, Dr. Stanley Barnes (Neurology), Mr. Victor Bonney (Ob- and under the direction of my dear friend, that great stetrics and Gynaecology), Mr. E. B. Dowsett (Odontology), anthropologist and biologist, Sir Arthur Keith-otherwise Mr. E. 'W. Brewerton (Ophthalmology), Mr. Harry Platt Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeeni-I have been (Orthopaedics), Mr. Norman Patterson (Otology), Professor E. H. Kettle (Pathology), Dr. F. G. Thomson (Physical permitted to accomplish what I have done here. I do Medicine), Dr. Bernard Hart (Psychiatry), Professor J. M. believe, as Lord MIoynihan has said, that we are entering Woodburn Morison (Radiology), Mr. C. H. Fagge (Surgery), upon an entirely new epoch in the history of our glorious Dr. E. P. Poulton (Therapeutics and Pharmacology), Dr. old College. J. Gordon Thomsoin (Tropical Diseases and Parasitology), Lieut.-Colonel E. M. Co-well (Uniited Services), Mr. Ralph VISIT TO DOWN HousE Thompson (Urology). After tea had been taken, the company made their DE BEc seconded way along the " On the motion of Dr. TURTLE, by sand walk--Darwin's thinking path" Dr. J. D. ROLLESTON, a hearty vote of thanks was to Down House, the property which was presenited in accorded to Mr. E. K. Martin, on his retirement from 1927 by Mr. Buckston Browne to the British Association joint honorary secretaryship of the society after four as a memorial of Charles Darwin. Here they gazed years of devoted service in that capacity. with interest at its steadily accumulating treasures, and especially at Darwin's stuidy, kept as it was during his lifetime, writh the little paraffin lamp on the table, and the dog (now a trophy of the art of the taxidermist) in its basket on the hearth. Others who accompanied the party, in addition to those already mentioned, were:' -AN HISTORICAL ACCIDENT The opening of the Manchester Liverpool Railway in Sir Thomas Barlow, Sir James Berry, Professor A. H. anid Burgess (Acting President, British Medical Association), Mr. 1830 ended in a tragedy which has become of as much McAdam Eccles, M\Ir. Victor Bonney, Professor Graham historical interest as the event which occasioned it-this Simpsonl, P'rof(csor Hey Groves, Mr. Cecil P. G. \Vakeley, was the death of Mr. Huskisson. The impression got J)r. Scott WVilliamson, Sir Arthur Keith, Professor WVingate abroad at the time, and has often been referred to since, Tod(d, Professor Fraser Harris, Dr. de Bec Turtle, Mr. Sampson flHtra(lley, MIr. R. G. Hogarth, Professor G. E. Gask, that death was due to neglect through disagreement I)r. John Eyre, and MIr. WVinsbury XVhite. between the surgeons as to the proper treatment to adopt. The following account of the event, taken from the North of England Medical anid Surgical Journal, 18A0-31 (p. 263), was writtein by Mr. John Atkinson Ransome, ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE F.R.C.S., honorary surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, one of the surgeons called in to treat Mr. ANNUAL MEETING Huskisson. The annual meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine took place oIn July 7th, with the president, Dr. T. WATTS The Circumistanices of the late Mr. Huskisson's EDEN, in the chair. fatal Accident The PRESIDENT, in presenting the annual report of the The Right Honourable Mr. Huskisson's melanicholy council, said that the increase in the number of Fellows case having excited, in a considerable degree, the public of the society was a matter of great satisfaction. The sytnpathies, I am induced to avail myself of your respect- present number of Fellowvs, excluding Honorary Fellows able Journal, to state the particulars, as far as my observa- and members of other designations, was 4,160, an increase tions extended. Accompanied by Messrs. Whatton, of nearly 600 upoIn the number five years ago. On the Garside and White, I was introduced to Mr. Huskisson, other hand, the members of Sections (349) were decreasing, at the vicarage, in Eccles; he was lying on a couch-his w,hich showed that the advantages of full Fellowship were countenance was pallid-his expression was firm anid being more widely realized, so that new adherents became collected, though he suffered from frequent spasmodic Fellows instead of merely sectional members. The two pains-his pulse thready and extremely feeble-his new Sections of Physical Medicine and of Radiology (which extremities cold, indicating the powerful shock his consti- had taken the place of the Sections of Electro-Therapeutics tution had received, aind which had not been succeeded and of Balneology and Climatology) were now fullv con- by any reaction. On inspecting the limb, the Tibia and stituted, and members were enrolling in large numbers. Fibula were comminuited and the integuments much The old Sections themselves organized the change, and bruised and torn-the Os Femoris was broken into a great the matter had gone through very smoothly. The society number of small, angular and rugged fragments-the was indebted to the widow of a well-known Fellow, Dr. Rectus and Triceps muscles were quite denuded and Edward Law, for a gift of £500 to commemorate her crushed, and the Sartorius torn across. The sheath of husband's work. The money would be spent in the the Femoral Artery was laid bare, and the superficial purchase of books for the library on otological, rhino- nerves were exposed and torn. The accident had occurred logical, and laryngological subjects, in which Dr. Law about two hours before we arrived. Lord Wilton had, had been interested, and every book would contain a with great judgement, applied a handkerchief and stick commemorative book-plate. as a field Tourniquet, which had restrained the hemor- Professor WILLIAMi BULLOCH, one of the honorary rliage. The quantity which had escaped would not have librarians, gave an account of the work of the library, been considered great, ha(l it occurred in a strong and which, he said, was now the second largest medical vigorous man; but in an individual sixty years of age, library in the world, the largest being the Surgeon- and previously enfeebled by disease and a recent opera- General's library at Washington. Dr. HUGH THURSFIELD, tion, it was sufficient, in conj unction' with the severe