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EDWIN THOMAS HARRIES DAVIES

M.D., M.S. Lond., F.R.C.S.

-Air. E. T. H. Davies, surgeon to Tredegar Hospital,died on May 14. He was a native of Carmarthen and waseducated at the local grammar school, the University ofWales, and St. Mary’s Hospital, London. As a studenthe won many scholarships and prizes at his hospital.After qualifying in 1906 he held resident appointmentsthere, and later he became surgical registrar to theLondon Temperance Hospital. In 1908 he took the M.D.,and in 1910 the M.s. and F.R.c.s. He was the only success-ful candidate in the M.s. examination that year.In 1911 he began his work at Tredegar. Besides his

main hospital appointment he was medical super-intendent of the Tredegar Medical Aid Society, medicalofficer of health for the urban district, and medical super-intendent of the infectious-diseases hospital. When heretired from his hospital appointment in 1949 a wardwas named after him. For some years he continued tohold a part-time surgical appointment under the WelshRegional Hospital Board.

I. D. writes :

Tredegar was fortunate to secure Edwin Davies’s servicesas surgeon to the former Tredegar Iron and Coal Companyand he remained there throughout the whole of his pro-fessional life of nearly forty years. He was skilled in allbranches of surgery, including ophthalmic surgery. I met him

occasionally in consultation, for I was the visiting physicianto his hospital. It was soon evident that this densely popu-lated industrial area had received the services of a first-class

surgeon and he maintained a high hospital standard through-out his working life. He was also available for consultations

by his colleagues in the town and district. His enthusiasm andskill never diminished, and this large community will rememberhis devoted service and surgical skill.

Mr. Davies leaves a widow and a daughter, Dr. CarylSt. John Davies.

Dr. HAROLD TRIMBLE

G. S. T. writes :

I would regard Harold Trimble as an international figure,not only for his work on diseases of the chest, but also forthe way in which he fostered friendship between the medicalprofession of America and England. He travelled widely allover the world, his one idea to gain knowledge from othersand cement friendship between the medical professions of thecountries visited. A man with a striking personality, to meethim was at once to like him, and this soon grew to affection.He was always searching after new knowledge in his chosen

subject of chest disease, and even with his busy clinical lifefound time to be a member of many prominent committees,both on the administrative side of chest organisation and onthe research side.

Appointments

CALDWELL, A. S., M.B. Glasg., D.P.H. : senior assistant M.o., Perthand Kinross.

COTTON, L. T., B.M. Oxfd, F.R.C.S. : consultant surgeon, King’sCollege Hospital, London, and surgical tutor to the medicalschool.

LAM&, NORA M., L.R.C.P.I. : assistant school M.o., Scunthorpe areaof Lindsey.

MEESEEY, HAROLD, B.M. Oxfd : assistant psychiatrist (s.H.M.o.),Cherry Knowle Hospital, Ryhope, Sunderland.

Ross, H. S., M.B. St. And. : deputy physician-superintendent(psychiatrist), State Mental Hospital and State Institution forMental Defectives, Carstairs, Lanarkshire.

Manchester Regional Hospital Board :DAWSON, D. W., M.B. Edin., M.R.C.P.E. : consultant pathologist,

north Manchester group of hospitals.MACAULAY, DUNCAN, M.D. Glasg., M.R.C.P., D.c.H.: consultant

paediatrician, south Manchester group of hospitals.MARSDEN, H. B., M.B. Manc., D.c.H.. D.PATH. : consultant

pathologist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Pendle-bury.

MURRAY, D. B., L.R.C.P.F,., D.A. : assistant anaesthetist (S.H.M.O),Blackburn and district hospitals.PANIRKAR, SANKAR, M.B. Mane., F.R.C.S., D.L.O. : consultant

E.N.T. surgeon, Blackburn and district hospital centre.PYAN, D. J., M.B. N.U.I., D.A. : assistant anaesthetist (s.H.M.o.),

Wigan, Leigh, and Wrightington hospital centres.

Notes and News

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

AT the close of the World Health Assembly on May 24. thepresident, Dr. S. H. Al-Wahbi, of Iraq, said he thought therewas general agreement that the World Health Organisationwas going in the right direction by devoting increasing effortsto the coordination of research in the control or eradication ofdisease. This did not mean that W.H.O. was withholdingassistance to projects for the control of disease in the field ; for

example, malaria had been eradicated in 10 countries or

territories, eradication was under way in 15, and had beeninitiated or planned in 38. The total population of these 63countries, the president remarked, was 1211 million-almosthalf the population of the world.The Darling Foundation medal and prize for outstanding

achievements in the control of malaria. was awarded toDr. Paul F. Russell, of the Rockefeller Foundation. For hiswork in social medicine, Dr. Marcin Kacprzak, of Poland, wasawarded the Léon Bernard Foundation prize.On May 28 the executive board of W.H.O. concluded a

two-day meeting under the chairmanship of Sir John Charles,chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health. Among thetechnical reports whose publication was authorised were thefifth report of the expert committee on mental health, thethird report of the I.L.O.-W.H.O. expert committee on

occupational health, and the first report of the expert com-mittee on yellow-fever vaccine.

APPROVED NAMES FOR DRUGS

THE British Pharmacopoeia Commission has issued the

following new supplementary list of approved names for drugs :Approved name Other namesAmisometradine .. 6-Amino-1-methallyl-3-methylpyrimidine-2:4-

dione ,

RolictonFlorantyrone .. Y-Fluoranthen-8-yl-y-ogobutyric acid

ZancholHalothane .. 2-Bromo-2-chloro-1: 1 : 1-trMuoroethane

Fluothane -

Norethandrolone .. 17a-Ethyl-17-hydroxy-19-norandrost-4-en-3-one

’

NilevarPentacynium .. 4 - - ( 2 - [N - (5 - Cyano - 5: 5 - diphenylpeutyl) -N-

methylamino]ethyl) morpholine dimetho-chloride

PresidalProchlorperazine .. 1 -[3 - (2 - Chloro-10 -phenothiazinyl)propyl]-4-

methylpiperazineCompazine ; Stemetil

Tolpronine.... 1-(1 : 2 : 3 6-Tetrahydropyridino)-3-o-tolyl-oxypropan-2-ol

Proponesin is the hydrochloride

A COURAGEOUS MATRONMiss MacManus of Guy’s has become a legend. One of the

most eminent nurses of her time, she played a big part innursing affairs, travelled widely, and contributed much to theshaping of her profession. She has written her memoirs,l anunusual and welcome action in a profession traditionallyreticent about its personal life.She was the daughter of an Irish doctor in Battersea and

niece of the Guy’s superintendent’s wife, Lady Perry, withwhom she spent much of her girlhood. It was natural, there-fore, that she should exchange the Superintendent’s Housefor the Nurses’ Home, where she qualified in 1912. In the1914-18 war she was an Army sister serving mainly in France,and the account of her exciting and strenuous experience is thebest part of the book. After a short spell as matron of theBristol Royal Infirmary she returned to Guy’s and spentthe rest of her career as its matron.The book will delight her many friends and admirers. In it

they may find themselves and certainly many they haveknown. Miss MacManus’s memory is capacious and retentive(or else she has very full diaries) and there is much detail. Inher memories of two wars, however, enjoyment of adventureand hardship has winnowed the chaff, and here the kind,resourceful, and courageous woman shows herself in all herquality.University College of the West Indies

Students at this college work for the M.B., B.s. degrees ofthe University of London. At the examinations for thesedegrees held in Jamaica in April the following were successful :

A. St. J. P. Jones, S. E. H. Brooks, G. S. McLeod.

1. Matron of Guy’s. By EMILY E. P. MACMANUS, C.B.E. London :Andrew Melrose. 1956. Pp. 228. 25s.