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.