r THE BRITISE , 1020 DEC. 1, 1934] OBITUARY MEDICAL JOURNAL come these deficiencies of equipment by amalgamations of practitioners in urban districts such as are now so fre- quent in rural areas, but external help, voluntary or State, @hituari would seem to be necessary before a satisfactory system of primary centres could be founded. Such centres would, J. STRICKLAND GOODALL, M.B., by ensuring the more satisfactory treatment of disease F.R.C.S.Ed., MA.R.C.P. in its early stage, save the expenditure of much money Physician, National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart on buildings necessary for the treatment of disease in its The death of Dr. Joseph Strickland Goodall at the com- later stages. paratively early age of 60 has come as a great shock to Can it be that the interest in the early manifestations his many friends both inside and outside the medical of disease aroused by the late Sir James Mackenzie has profession. already died down? -I am, etc., Dr. Goodall came from a long line of medical men London, \V.8, Nov. 19th. HAROLD H. SANGUINETTI. extending back for six generations, one of whom was President of the Royal College of Physicians. His father was senior surgeon in the Queensland Government Service. Ronald Ross and the Panama Canal He was born in 1874 in Queensland, and spent part of SIR,-In the British Medical Journal of November 17th his boyhood in Thursday Island. He was educated at (p. 917), Lord Leverhulme is reported as having stated Harrow School and at the Middlesex Hospital, whence with reference to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- he graduated M.B. in 1900. He entered Middlesex Hos- cine: " In the past the School rendered it possible for pital as senior scholar in 1895, and became demonstrator 40,000 persons to live and work in the region of the of biology and senior demonstrator of physiology in 1898. Panama Canal, where once 90,000 had perished." Lord He was appointed lecturer on biology to the City of Leverhulme has been misinformed. The French aban- London School and professor of biology and physiology doned the attempt at constructing the Panama Canal at the City of London College in 1899, lecturer on biology after suffering terrific mortality from both malaria and at the Middlesex Hospital in 1900, and lecturer on physio- yellow fever. Subsequently the U.S.A. Government, logy and pathological chemistry in 1903. through Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, head of the For many years he ran, in conjunction with Professor American Public Health Dtpartment, invited Sir Ronald Earle of Shanghai, an extremely successful and popular -then AIajor-Ross to join the Isthmian Canal Com- course in physiology for the Primary F.R.C.S., which mission. The recommendations proposed by Sir Ronald attracted students from all parts of the Empire, and Ross having been carried out, white men were enabled there must be many well-known surgeons at the present to live in the region and complete the construction of time who owe to Dr. Goodall their success in this early the canal. Hence it was not due to any medical school and important branch of surgery. In July, 1908, he was but through the genius of one man that the Panama Canal appointed subdean of the Medical School of the Middlesex reached completion. Hospital and member of the School Council. He obtained America freely acknowledged her debt of gratitude to his F.R.C.S.Ed. in 1910, and the same year was elected Sir Ronald Ross at the time. Most people in Great F.R.S.Ed. In 1914 he was elected to the staff of the Britain to this day are ignorant of his achievement. It National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart as assistant is at least incumbent on those who (like the writer) had physician, and became full physician in December, 1923. the great privilege of knowing, and studying under, the He obtained his M.R.C.P. in 1915. For many years he late Sir Ronald Ross, to salute and honour " the mighty was examiner in physiology and biology at the Society dead." I desire to add that my memory of the Liverpool of Apothecaries. School of Tropical Medicine is very grateful and very During the- war Dr. Goodall was consulting cardiologist dear.-I am, etc., to the War Office and to the Australian hospitals, retiring Canterbury, Nov. 21st. J. CHAS. RYAN, D.T.M.Liverp. after the armistice with the rank of major. During these years he examined and reported on the cardiovascular system of ten thousand recruits. In 1925 he founded a Tests for Colour-blindness cardiological clinic in connexion with the South Metro- SIR,-The Medical Research Council has issued a report politan Gas Company, and this he still actively supervised on colour-blindness in which it is stated that the apertures up to his death. It was the first clinic of industrial of two lanterns bearing my name differ. They were made cardiology to be established in this country. He was the, by different makers, and I can find no evidence that the first physician in London to restrict his practice to pure defective lantern was ever examined by me. It was made cardiology. An extremely hard worker with an enormous by makers whom I gave up, as they sold lanterns without consulting practice, he yet always seemed to find timne submitting them to me. Obviously I cannot be respon- to give helpful advice to his old students, and, indeed, sible for a lantern I have not examined and certified as unfailing kindness to all was an integral part of his accurate. I sometimes have to reject a whole batch. character. There are lanterns bearing my name which are grossly Dr. Goodall possessed a brilliant brain, full of original inaccurate.-I am, etc., ideas, which he was not afraid to employ in the treat- ment of his patients. The fact that many of these have Board of Trade, London, F. W. EDRIDGE-GREEN. the treatment S.W.1, Nov. 23rd. taken their place as accepted among large numbers of the profession goes to prove the exactitude of his reasoning. He was to some extent unorthodox in X-Ray Cinematography his views, and had no use for the accepted shibboleths SIR,-You have been kind enough to mention my recent unless he could prove their value from personal experience. work on x-ray cinematography in the Journal several He was an extremely good teacher, both of physiology and times this year. I should like to record the fact that I of cardiology, and had to the full the facility of explaining am now able to make a cinematograph record of the difficult problems in simple language. He kept up his electrocardiograph tracing and of the heart shadow interest in physiology throughout his life, and was vice- simultaneously on the same film.-I am, etc., president of that Section of the British Medical Association London, W.1, Nov. 24th. RUSSELL J. REYNOLDS. in 1914. His physiological training- enabled -him early TIE BRITISH DEc. 1, 1934' OBITUARY rLMEDICAL JOURNAL 1021 to realize the value of the electrocardiograph in the By the death of Dr. ROBERT MONTGOMERY RENDALL, accurate diagnosis of heart disorders. He worked with on November 8th, in a nursing home at Bournemouth, the late Professor Augustus Waller on the cap1llary electro- following an operation, Nottingham has lost a well-known meter in the of heart and hadl and much respected citizen, who has not only left behind investigation. currents, hi-m a long record of honorable professional work but installed in the Middlesex Hospital a string-galvanometer ha.s also made his mark in the municipal affairs of as early as 1910. He was thus one of the earliest physi- the city. A Dorsetshire man, a son and grandson of cians to use the electrocardiograph in the routine exam- doctors, Dr. Rendall received his training at Guy's Hos- ination of cardiac patients, and many of the. electro- pital, qualifying M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1906, and after cardiographic phenomena were first noted by him. In a period as house-surgeon at Barnstaple and Kidder- later years his interest from the electrocardlographic stand- minster he went to Nottingham in 1910. During the point was chi--fly towards the elucidation of diseases of war he served with the R.A.M.C. in East Africa, but on the myocardium, and he has contributed many papers being demobilized in 1919 he resumed his Opractice in Nottingham. Dr. Rendall took a keen interest in the and lectures on toxic myocarditis. affairs of the city of his adoption, and became a member He was early interested in the heart in Graves's disease, of the city council in October, 1922, until this present and his researches in this branch of cardiology have formed November, when he did not seek re-election. His the basis of most of the recent work on the thyrotoxic principal work on the council was done as chairman of heart. He published many papers, both in this country the Mental Hospital and Mental Deficiency Committees. and in the United States, on various cardiological subjects, He also was much interested in medical politics, being and his reputation as a cardiologist was world-wide. For honorary secretary from 1914 to 1927 and chairman from several years Dr. Strickland Goodall was responsible 1928 to 1931 of the Local Medical and Panel Committee. for the cardiovascular section of Savill's Textbook of He was also chairman of the Medical Benefit Subcom- mittee of the Insurance Committee in 1931-2.