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took his D.P.H., and while holding a Medical ResearchCouncil appointment carried out an investigation intoenteric carriers.’ The following year he became demons-trator in pathology at Durham University, and assistantpathologist in the. Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle.In 1927, at the age of 32, he went to Dalhousie tlniver-

sity as professor of pathology and bacteriology andprovincial pathologist for Nova Scotia. In the followingyear he was awarded his M.D. with honours and also theBellahouston gold medal. During his years in Canadahis advice was widely sought on medicolegal problemsin all the Maritime Provinces. He was a founder fellowofthe College. of American Pathologists ; and examinerin pathology to the Dominion Medical Council of Canadaand the Canadian College of Physicians and Surgeons.Apart from his abiding interest in medicolegal pathology,he was for many years a member of the AmericanAssociation of Geographic Pathology -and he was also amember of the International Association for DentalResearch. Three years ago he returned to this countryas consultant pathologist to the Newcastle GeneralHospital, and he administered his department with hiscustomary energy and enthusiasm until his death.A colleague writes : " Paterson Smith was an excellent

teacher, and -his students often had the highest averagestanding in pathology examinations, in which they hadto-compete with men from all othcn Canadian universities.As aman he was courteous and unselfish; he was endowedwith an enormous fund of energy which was evident to allthose who visited his department. His careful work invarious branches of pathology was published in a seriesof admirable papers, and his writings were not withoutinfluence on the medical teaching of his day. Hisintroduction of the term ’ lobular hyperplasia’ into theclassification of diseases of the breast did much to dispelconfusion."Dr. Paterson Smith leaves a widow and five sons,

one of whom is a medical student at Durham TTniversity.EDWARD SCOTT WORTHINGTON

E.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G., C.I.E., M.D. TorontoSir Edward Worthington, formerly an assistant

director-general of Army Medical Services, and physicianto the late Duke of Connaught, died in London on

April 5, at the age of 76.He received his medical education at Trinity University,

Toronto, and he held the degree of M.D. Toronto. In1899, after coming to this country, lie took the. Conjointqualifleation and in the following year he joined theR.A,M.C. He served in the South African war from 1899to 1902. He was appointed medical officer on the staff.of the- Duke of Connaught for the opening of the Unionof South Africa Parliament in 1910, and he was again:!r.o. to the Duke of Connaught while he was governor-general of Canada from 1911 to 1914. He was knightedin 1913. ,For his services in France from 1914 till 1916 he was

mentioned in despatches and " brought to notice forvaluable-services rendered." He also received the brevetof colonel, the American Distinguished Service Medal,the Order of Leopold (4th class), and the Belgian Croixde Guerre. He was appointed C.M.G. in 1915. In 1917he rejoined the staff of the Duke of Connaught, and in1918 he was appointed c.B., and the following yearcreated K.C.V.O. He was with the Duke at the openingof the Princes’ Council in India in 1920, and in 1921 hewas appointed c.i.E. Sir Edward was deputy assistantdirector-general and assistant director-general at theWar Office from 1917 to 1922. He was appointed K.H.P.in 1922 and he retired in 1926.

, EUGEN POLLAK

M.D. Vienna ’

Dr. Pollak’s death on April 9 will be keenly felt by hiseulleagues in -Manchester, his adopted. city, where hebad lived since 1939 and where he was university lecturerin neuropatholpgy. He was one of that small band, thereally widely informed and accomplished neuropatholo-gists. At the Neurological Institute in Vienna he hadbeen a pupil of Marburg, Obersteiner, and Erdheim, aswell as,-of Wagner-Jauregg, who had. first encouragedhim in neurology. He had a :large number of importantpapers.to his credit chiefly about the degenerative andchronic infections of the nervous system.

Dr. Pollak came from a Vienna that had already lostthe glitter, the panache of the royalist times which hehad known, but still was magnetic in a medical sense.Everybody went to Vienna sooner or later to listen to oneauthority or other. There was no branch, of- medicinethat the Viennese school had not richly adorned. - Thepilgrimage was made the more attractive by the charmof the surroundings as well as the good humour andtolerance of the Austrian character. Dr. Pollak himselfhad good humour in abundance, a remarkable memory,and a wide and, what is more, a critical knowledge ofthe medical personalities of Central Europe. Tolerationhe kept within bounds. He was unable to speak of theVienna of the last war without rancour, since he -wasashamed of the way that so many of his countrymen hadsuccumbed to the Nazi influence. He was deeply grievedby the murder during the war of his sister to whom hewas so devoted.’ He was therefore insulted - ratherthan flattered when offered the directorship of his oldlaboratory four or five years ago....He was a lonely figure in many ways, proud and

reticent about himself, but as fine an example as onecould have of a courageous man of principle, the victim-of political misconduct and worse. But this was not all.Until his illness he was always excellent company, andhe was a wit whose comments on medical or world affairswere always eagerly listened to by his friends in theuniversity. Moreover he was deeply interested in musicand, as an ardent admirer of the Vienna PhilharmonicOrchestra and the friend of musicians, he had much totell that was refreshing and original. In- the old daysbefore the first world war Manchester had had a liberal-minded German colony of cultured business men whowere responsible for a great deal of that city’s supposedaddiction to the arts as well as to the mechanical crafts.Pollak would have been instantly at home with them,they had the same wide interests, the same artisticpassions. That colony of course has long been gone, butPollak rekindled memories of those times. -

I have spoken mainly of Pollak as a -man whosecompany I and many others will sorely miss. He wrotevery little after he- came to England, preferring toaccumulate material and make histological preparationsin a way few, if any, could surpass. But then, before hehad time to put together the fruits of his labours; illnesstook hold of him. We shall long remember -his wittypersonality, his intelligence, his courage, his honesty; hisindependence.

Mrs. Pollak died young. He is survived-by a marrieddaughter in Vancouver, B.C.

- ° G. J.

AppointmentsBELL, W. J., M.B. Edin., M.R.c.p.E., D.P.H.: physician (s.H.M.o.),

pneumoeoniosis and tuberculosis, Bangor Hospital, Broxburn.FURNIVAL, J. T., M.R.C.S., D.M.R.D.: consultant - radiologist,

S. Shields, S.E. Northumberland, and Wansbeck H.R2.c. groups.HOFFMAN, EUGENE, M.D. Prague, F.R.o.s. : consultant thoracic

surgeon, Newcastle regional thoracic service.SMITH, BV. H., M.B. Lond., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist,

Plymouth clinical area.East Anglian Regional Hospital Board :

DAS, J. B., M.B. Madras : surgical registrar, E. Suffolk andIpswich Hospital.

McCARTHY, AuNES, M.B. Lond., D.A.: anæsthetic registrar,Peterborough Memorial Hospital.

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McCONNELL, JoAN, B.A., M.B. Camb. : registrar in psychiatry,St. Andrew’s DIental Hospital.

MONRO, R. S., B.A., M.B. Camb., i’-.K.c.n. : consultant surgeon,- Ipswich hospital group.

Appointed Factory Doctors:CLARKE, R. W., M.B.E., L.R.C.P.: Rushden, Northamptonshire.RILEY, E. F., M.B. Birm. : Epperstone, Nottinghamshire.SIM, C. (3.. M.A., M.B. 1)uuh. : Haltwhistle, Northumberland.

STEWART, 1). L., M.B. Aberd. : Insch, Aberdeenshire.The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London : ’

HOYTE, F. C., M.B. Lond.: house-surgeon, orthopcedic and plasticdepartments. -

LUDER, JOSEPH, M.D. Lond., M.R.C.P., D.C.H.: medical registrarand pathologist.

PALLOT, DOREEN, M.B. Lond., D.A.: junior resideut anæsthetist-RICHARDSON, F. L., M.B. Birm. : house-physician. ,

SIMPKISS, M. J., M.B. Birm.: tgst. medical registrar. --S

Western Regional Hospital Board, Scotland :BROWN, R. U., -,Nr.i3. Glasg., D.A. : asst. anæsthetist, Western

. Infirmary, Glasgow.GERRARD, BARBARA, M.B. Lond., 1).A. : asst. aneesthetlst, VictoriaInfirmary and Hairmyres Hospital, E. Kilbride.

SNODGRASS, MARJORY, M.B. Glasg., F.R.F.P.S., D.O.M.S.: asst.ophthalmologist. Glasgow Eye Inflrmarjr.