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YALE KNEELANDM.D. Columbia

Dr. Yale Kneeland, Jr., emeritus professor of medi-cine at Columbia University’s College of Physiciansand Surgeons, died in New York on Dec. 15 at theage of 69, after a twenty-year fight againstrheumatoid arthritis, which eventually left him teach-ing students in a wheelchair.He was the most British of Americans, particularly

because of his days as an American at Oxford, where hewas colonel in charge of the Columbia-Presbyterian MedicalService in the 1939-45 war. He had already made an inter-national name with Dr. A. R. Dochez and Katherine MillsPrice for pioneer studies on transmission of the commoncold to volunteers in the mid-1930s. But, like Dochez, hisscientific prowess was coupled with the intellectual snob-bishness of a true bibliophile. He enjoyed recounting howA. R. Dochez had introduced the British Medical _7ournaland The Lancet to the racks of the exclusive New York

Century Club, a club which eventually honoured him withits presidency. He spoke English better than the English,wrote elegantly, and read widely. He used all these facilitiesduring and after the war to teach students medicine in aBritish style, to write an outstanding account of infectiousdiseases for the official U.S. medical history of the 1939-45war, to write elegantly in Loeb’s textbook of medicine, tobe invited everywhere as a favourite guest manipulator ofclinicopathological conferences, and to be a trustee of theAmerican University, Beirut. Only rheumatoid arthritisprevented him from fulfilling numerous invitations to speakin Britain during the last fifteen years.

Those of us who worked with him will never forget histwo faces in later years-the one exuding geniality, charm,and bonhomie to anybody visiting his laboratory, and theother a lonely figure sitting in his office for thirty minutesbefore he could summon the strength to put on his overcoatbecause of the joint stiffness. His activities were limited,but his ardour was unquenchable as a potent pro-Britishmedical influence, a genial host in New York City, and anoutstanding exemplar of Anglo-American camaraderie.

D. G. J.

DIANA MARY DU HEAUME

M.R.C.S., D.C.H., D.P.M.

Dr. Diana M. du Heaume, assistant medical officerat St. Joseph’s Mental Hospital, Limerick, died inDublin in November. She was 61.

She was born in Kar, India, and educated at PrincessHelena College, Ealing, Bedford College, London, whereshe graduated in social studies, and the Royal Free Hospital,London. She took the Conjoint diploma in 1945 and thenheld several house-appointments. After her marriage sheaccompanied her husband to Amman, where she workedfor the Palestinian refugees for 3 years. From 1951 to 1956she worked in family planning in Bristol, and then thefamily moved to Eire, where she worked first in paediatricsand then in psychiatry. She took the D.c.H. in 1961 and theD.P.M. in 1969. She later became interested in alcoholism.

She is survived by her two children, one of whom is amedical student.

E. T. writes:" Diana was somewhat frustrated as a student by what

seemed to be an inadequate general understanding of thesocial and psychological factors in disease. At a time whena student or house-surgeon could be reprimanded for‘

meddling with people’s minds ’, her own previous trainingin social studies and her experience did not appear to be

considered relevant, and even seemed a disadvantage. In

spite of this, she had good house-appointments, and afterher marriage was able to express her faith and use hertraining by going with her husband as a missionary toAmman. She was always deeply concerned with humanbeings-she never really recovered from the inhumanitiesshe had witnessed in the Middle East. In later years her

primary interest was in the deteriorated alcoholic, for whomshe would go to endless trouble."

Diary of the Week

JANUARY 10 TO 16

Tuesday, 12th

LONDON MEDICAL GROUP5.45 P.M. (King’s College Hospital Medical School, Denmark Hill,

London S.E.5.) Dr. C. Murray Parkes: Bereavement.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

8 P.M. (Medical School.) Surgery. Mr. M. M. Hegarty, Mr. G. T. G.Knowlson: Endotracheal Intubation during Surgery.

Wednesday, 13th

ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Hammersmith Hospital,London W.12

2 P.M. Prof. Thomas Symington: Problems of Endocrine GonadalPathology.

INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, 30 Guilford Street, London W.C.15.30 P.M. Prof. I. J. Carre: Partial Thoracic Stomach in Children.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, London S.W.35 P.M. Dr. M. Branthwaite: The Investigation of Circulatory Failure.

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, LondonWC1N 3BG

6 P.M. Prof. G. W. Harris: Endocrine-Central Nervous SystemRelationships.

7 P.M. Dr. J. D. N. Nabarro: The Clinical Aspects of Endocrine-Central Nervous System Relationships. (Sandoz lectures.)

INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPEDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, LondonWlN 6AD

6 P.M. Dr. Barbara Ansell: Rheumatoid Arthritis-Medical Manage-ment.

8.15 P.M. Mr. D. L. Savill: Rheumatoid Arthritis-Surgical Manage-ment.

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, LondonS.E.5

5.30 P.M. Dr. Malcolm Pines: Sexuality and Identity.INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 10 Henrietta Street, London W.C.2

5 P.M. Mr. D. Innes Williams: Urological Malignancy in Childhood.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, London W.C.1

5.15 P.M. Dr. David Mattingly: Cushing’s Syndrome.LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION

8 P.M. Mr. Martin Littlewood, Mr. Philip Stell: Head and NeckSurgery.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY5 P.M. (Medical School.) Pathology and Medicine. Dr. J. R. Hobbs:

The Natural and Iatrogenic Histories of Myelomatosis.

Thursday, 14th

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,London WC2A 3PN

5 P.M. Mr. Robert Cooke: The Challenge and Fascination of BiliaryTract Surgery. (Bradshaw lecture.)

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Millbank, London S.W.15 P.M. Dr. Brian Creamer: The Coeliac Syndrome-Something for

Everybody.WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SCHOOL, Horseferry Road, London S.W.1

5.15 P.M. Mr. Gerald Westbury, Mr. J. S. P. Wilson: Treatment ofCancer of the Head and Neck.

LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION8 P.M. Dr. A. John Robertson, Mr. D. James, Mr. D. Millington,

Miss V. M. jenkinson: The Impact of the Computer inModern Medicine.

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE5 P.M. Prof. R. F. Mahler: The Fat Diabetic.

ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY8.30 P.M. (Medical Biology Centre, Lisburn Road, Belfast.) Dr. H. G.

Calwell: The History of the Royal Belfast Hospital for SickChildren—the Queen Street Days. (Sir Thomas and LadyEdith Dixon lecture.)

Friday, 15th

ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL11 A.M. Mr. B. J. Belhouse: The Functional Anatomy of the Mitral

and Aortic Valves.