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988 STUART SPENCE MEIGHAN B.c., M.B. Glasg., F.R.F.P.S. Dr. Spence Meighan died on April 20, at the age of 65 years, a short time after his retirement from his appoint- ments as surgeon to Glasgow Eye Infirmary and oph- thalmic surgeon to Stobhill Hospital. His father, Dr. T. Spence Meighan, had preceded him as surgeon to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary, and he was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow Univer- sity. . The award of the Weir scholarship to him in his third year proved a reliable prognostic sign, for he graduated B.sc. in pure science in 1909 and M.B. with honours in 1912, and still found time to play rugger for the university xv. He was also a powerful swimmer and captained a Glasgow water-polo team. As a houseman at the Western Infirmary he had the exhilarating experience of serving under Sir William Macewen and Ralph Stockman. After holding other junior posts, including a clinical assistantship at the ,Glasgow Eye Infirmary, he was commissioned in 1915 in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.). He served in France with a field ambu- lance in the 51st Highland Division, and he was twice men- tioned in despatches before he was taken prisoner-of-war. On demobilisation in 1919 he returned to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary as assistant surgeon. Later he became visiting surgeon to the Eye Infirmary and ophthalmic .surgeon to Stobhill Hospital. In 1926 he was appointed professor of ophthalmology at the Anderson College of Medicine in the extramural school. In 1920 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons and he was an examiner in ophthalmology for the faculty. He also held office as president of the Scottish Ophthalmic Ulub and vice-president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. He was a member of the board of management for the Glasgow Northern Hospitals. S. A. writes : " Spence Meighan became a legend in his own life-time. He was a comfortable soul-generously proportioned, ruddy complexioned, and by disposition genial and friendly. His outlook and temperament seemed essentially bucolic, but at heart he had an almost Johnsonian love of towns and cities. For a few years before he died he lived in the beautiful Blane valley, on the road to Killearn ; but he could always find a good reason for driving into Glasgow, and Sauchiehall Street was his spiritual home. Nevertheless he could enjoy the open air and it was his delight to have sailing holidays on the Clyde with his neurosurgical colleague. Not the least engaging of his qualities was his loyalty to his friends and to the hospitals which he served-a loyalty so unswerving that it became a source of inspiration to all who worked with him." Dr. Spence Meighan leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom is a senior registrar in medicine. JOHN EDMUND BOWEN M.A., M.B. N.U.I., D.P.H., D.M.R.E. Dr. J. E. Bowen, who died in Dublin on April 19, at the age of 69, was a native of Galway City. He was educated there at St. Ignatius College and at Queen’s (now University) College. After he had taken an M.A. degree in 1910, he was appointed assistant lecturer in physics and, although of retiring nature, he quickly won a well-deserved popularity for patient and lucid exposition of his subject. About 1919 he was appointed lecturer in physics at King’s College, London. During his last few years in Galway he studied medicine and he completed his course in London at Middlesex Hospital and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He graduated M.B. N.U.I. in 1921, and he took the D.P.H. in 1922 and the D.M.R.E. in 1923. Almost the whole of his medical career was spent in Shanghai, where he was superintendent and radiologist to the Country Hospital and chief radiologist to the Shanghai municipal council. During the war he was interned in Japan. He passed the last years of his life in Dublin. J. C. writes : " John E, as he was affectionately called, left Galway ‘in dark and troubled times and he was destined to travel far off ways,’ but his heart, perhaps, remained in the Citie of the Tribes and it is there that he was buried." He is survived by his wife, Miss Nettie Grealish, of Galway, whom he married in 1916. Diary of the Week MAY 9 TO MAY 15 Monday, 10th WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY 8.30 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.I.) Sir William MacArthur : Pepys and the Plague. (Cavendish lecture.) MEDICAL. SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, W.1 8.30 P.M. Mr. Geoffrey Keynes: Second (and Third) Thoughts on Surgery of the Thymus Gland. (Annual oration.) Tuesday, llth ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East, S.W.1 5 P.M. Dr. J. Forest Smith: Nutrition and Child Health. (Second of two Croonian lectures.) ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2 3.45 P.M. Dr. L. M. Franks : Latent Carcinoma. (Imperial Cancer Research Fund lecture.) ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.1 5.30 P.M. Section of Experimental Medicine. Dr. F. V. Flynn, Dr. J. Hardwicke, Prof. A. C. Frazer, Prof. N. H. Martin : The Serum Proteins. 8 P.M. Section of Psychiatry. Dr. L. Stein, Mrs. Mary Williams, Miss Theodora Alcock : Stammering. WRiGHT-FLEMiNG INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY, St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, W.2 5 P.M. Prof. P. B. Medawar, F.R.S.: Wound Healing with Special Reference to the Skin. INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital, Lisle Street, W.C.2 5.30 P.M. Dr. J. 0. Oliver : Antibiotics. CIBA FOUNDATION 5 P.M. (26, Portland Place, W.I.) Sir Macfarlane Burnet, F.R.S. (Melbourne) : Problem of Virulence in Virus Disease. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 5 P.M. (University New Buildings, Teviot Row.) Prof. Evarts A. Graham : Cancer of Lung. (Sir John Fraser lecture.) Wednesday, 12th INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY 5.30 P.M. Dr. J. A. Dudgeon : Virus Diseases. MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY 4.30 P.M. (Medical School, University of Manchester.) Section of Pathology. Prof. R. A. Willis: Use and Abuse of Eponyms. UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN 4.30 P.M. (School of Physic, Trinity College.) Prof. E. B. Verney, F.R.s. : Water Diuresis. (John Mallet Purser lecture.) Thursday, 13th POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12 4 P.M. Prof. M. L. Rosenheim : Treatment of Nephritis. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 5 P.M. Section of Ophthalmology. Mr. H. E. Hobbs, Mr. W. E. S. Bain : Hormone Treatment in Macular Disease. Dr. C. H. Greer : Pre-cancerous Melanosis. INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY 5.30 P.M. Dr. Dudgeon : Virus Diseases. ALFRED ADLER MEDICAL SOCIETY 8 P.M. (11, Chandos Street, W.1.) Dr. Franklin Bicknell: Diet and Behaviour. UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS 5 P.M. (Medical School, Small’s Wynd, Dundee.) Dr. R. W. G. Wyckoff: Use of Electron Microscope in Biology and Medicine. SURREY INTER-HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION 5.30 P.M. (Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre, Horsham, Sussex.) Dr. V. W. Wilson : Occupational Problems of the Neurotic. Dr. L. S. Davies : Value of Funkenstein Test. Dr. T. M. Ling: Psychological Problems Involved in Population Shift. Friday, 14th POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON 2 P.M. Mr. E. P. Brockman : Disabilities of the Foot. 4 P.M. Prof. R. B. Hunter : Control of Anticoagulant Therapy in Myocardial Infaretion. INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY 5.30 P.M. Dr. P. F. Borrie : Vascular Anomalies. VARRIER-JONES LECTURE 5 P.M. (26, Portland Place, W.1.) Dr. H. G. Trimble (California): Current Therapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 5 P.M. (Department of Pathology, Medical School.) Sir Macfarlane Burnet : Influenza Virus Genetics. UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS 3.30 P.M. (University Union.) Dr. Alfred Blalock (Baltimore): Expanding Scope of Cardiovascular Surgery. (Moynihan lecture.) Saturday. 15th BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY 11 A.M. (Department of Physiology, University, Bristol, 8.) Scientific papers. Births, Marriages, and Deaths BIRTHS MICHELL.-On April 12, at the Middlesex Hospital, W.1, to Anne, wife of Dr. Guy Michell-a daughter. DEATHS BRODIE.-On April 21, in Malaya, Dr. Mabel Garland Brodie. wife of Dr. W. H. Brodie.
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STUART SPENCE MEIGHANB.c., M.B. Glasg., F.R.F.P.S.
Dr. Spence Meighan died on April 20, at the age of 65years, a short time after his retirement from his appoint-ments as surgeon to Glasgow Eye Infirmary and oph-thalmic surgeon to Stobhill Hospital.
His father, Dr. T. Spence Meighan, had preceded himas surgeon to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary, and he waseducated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow Univer-sity. . The award of the Weir scholarship to him in histhird year proved a reliable prognostic sign, for hegraduated B.sc. in pure science in 1909 and M.B. withhonours in 1912, and still found time to play rugger forthe university xv. He was also a powerful swimmer andcaptained a Glasgow water-polo team.
As a houseman at the Western Infirmary he had theexhilarating experience of serving under Sir WilliamMacewen and Ralph Stockman. After holding otherjunior posts, including a clinical assistantship at the,Glasgow Eye Infirmary, he was commissioned in 1915 in theR.A.M.C. (T.F.). He served in France with a field ambu-lance in the 51st Highland Division, and he was twice men-tioned in despatches before he was taken prisoner-of-war.On demobilisation in 1919 he returned to the Glasgow
Eye Infirmary as assistant surgeon. Later he becamevisiting surgeon to the Eye Infirmary and ophthalmic.surgeon to Stobhill Hospital. In 1926 he was appointedprofessor of ophthalmology at the Anderson College ofMedicine in the extramural school. In 1920 he was electeda fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeonsand he was an examiner in ophthalmology for the faculty.He also held office as president of the Scottish OphthalmicUlub and vice-president of the Ophthalmological Societyof the United Kingdom. He was a member of the boardof management for the Glasgow Northern Hospitals.
S. A. writes : " Spence Meighan became a legend inhis own life-time. He was a comfortable soul-generouslyproportioned, ruddy complexioned, and by dispositiongenial and friendly. His outlook and temperamentseemed essentially bucolic, but at heart he had an almostJohnsonian love of towns and cities. For a few yearsbefore he died he lived in the beautiful Blane valley, onthe road to Killearn ; but he could always find a goodreason for driving into Glasgow, and Sauchiehall Streetwas his spiritual home. Nevertheless he could enjoy theopen air and it was his delight to have sailing holidayson the Clyde with his neurosurgical colleague. Not theleast engaging of his qualities was his loyalty to hisfriends and to the hospitals which he served-a loyaltyso unswerving that it became a source of inspiration to allwho worked with him."
Dr. Spence Meighan leaves a widow and two sons,one of whom is a senior registrar in medicine.
JOHN EDMUND BOWEN
M.A., M.B. N.U.I., D.P.H., D.M.R.E.
Dr. J. E. Bowen, who died in Dublin on April 19,at the age of 69, was a native of Galway City. He waseducated there at St. Ignatius College and at Queen’s(now University) College. After he had taken an M.A.degree in 1910, he was appointed assistant lecturer inphysics and, although of retiring nature, he quickly wona well-deserved popularity for patient and lucid expositionof his subject. About 1919 he was appointed lecturer inphysics at King’s College, London. During his last fewyears in Galway he studied medicine and he completedhis course in London at Middlesex Hospital and St.Bartholomew’s Hospital. He graduated M.B. N.U.I. in1921, and he took the D.P.H. in 1922 and the D.M.R.E.in 1923. Almost the whole of his medical career was spentin Shanghai, where he was superintendent and radiologistto the Country Hospital and chief radiologist to theShanghai municipal council. During the war he wasinterned in Japan. He passed the last years of his lifein Dublin.
J. C. writes : " John E, as he was affectionately called,left Galway ‘in dark and troubled times and he wasdestined to travel far off ways,’ but his heart, perhaps,remained in the Citie of the Tribes and it is there thathe was buried."He is survived by his wife, Miss Nettie Grealish, of
Galway, whom he married in 1916.
Diary of the WeekMAY 9 TO MAY 15
Monday, 10thWEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY
8.30 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.I.) Sir William MacArthur :Pepys and the Plague. (Cavendish lecture.)
MEDICAL. SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, W.18.30 P.M. Mr. Geoffrey Keynes: Second (and Third) Thoughts
on Surgery of the Thymus Gland. (Annual oration.)
Tuesday, llthROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East, S.W.1
5 P.M. Dr. J. Forest Smith: Nutrition and Child Health.(Second of two Croonian lectures.)
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.23.45 P.M. Dr. L. M. Franks : Latent Carcinoma. (Imperial
Cancer Research Fund lecture.)ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.1
5.30 P.M. Section of Experimental Medicine. Dr. F. V. Flynn,Dr. J. Hardwicke, Prof. A. C. Frazer, Prof. N. H. Martin :The Serum Proteins.
8 P.M. Section of Psychiatry. Dr. L. Stein, Mrs. Mary Williams,Miss Theodora Alcock : Stammering.
WRiGHT-FLEMiNG INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY, St. Mary’s HospitalMedical School, W.2
5 P.M. Prof. P. B. Medawar, F.R.S.: Wound Healing withSpecial Reference to the Skin.
INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital, Lisle Street,W.C.2
5.30 P.M. Dr. J. 0. Oliver : Antibiotics.CIBA FOUNDATION
5 P.M. (26, Portland Place, W.I.) Sir Macfarlane Burnet,F.R.S. (Melbourne) : Problem of Virulence in VirusDisease.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH5 P.M. (University New Buildings, Teviot Row.) Prof. Evarts A.
Graham : Cancer of Lung. (Sir John Fraser lecture.)
Wednesday, 12thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY
5.30 P.M. Dr. J. A. Dudgeon : Virus Diseases.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY
4.30 P.M. (Medical School, University of Manchester.) Sectionof Pathology. Prof. R. A. Willis: Use and Abuse ofEponyms.
UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN4.30 P.M. (School of Physic, Trinity College.) Prof. E. B. Verney,
F.R.s. : Water Diuresis. (John Mallet Purser lecture.)
Thursday, 13thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12
4 P.M. Prof. M. L. Rosenheim : Treatment of Nephritis.ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
5 P.M. Section of Ophthalmology. Mr. H. E. Hobbs, Mr. W. E. S.Bain : Hormone Treatment in Macular Disease. Dr. C. H.Greer : Pre-cancerous Melanosis.
INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY5.30 P.M. Dr. Dudgeon : Virus Diseases.
ALFRED ADLER MEDICAL SOCIETY8 P.M. (11, Chandos Street, W.1.) Dr. Franklin Bicknell: Diet
and Behaviour.UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
5 P.M. (Medical School, Small’s Wynd, Dundee.) Dr. R. W. G.Wyckoff: Use of Electron Microscope in Biology andMedicine.
SURREY INTER-HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION5.30 P.M. (Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre, Horsham, Sussex.)
Dr. V. W. Wilson : Occupational Problems of the Neurotic.Dr. L. S. Davies : Value of Funkenstein Test. Dr. T. M.Ling: Psychological Problems Involved in PopulationShift.
Friday, 14thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON
2 P.M. Mr. E. P. Brockman : Disabilities of the Foot.4 P.M. Prof. R. B. Hunter : Control of Anticoagulant Therapy
in Myocardial Infaretion.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY
5.30 P.M. Dr. P. F. Borrie : Vascular Anomalies.VARRIER-JONES LECTURE
5 P.M. (26, Portland Place, W.1.) Dr. H. G. Trimble (California):Current Therapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE5 P.M. (Department of Pathology, Medical School.) Sir
Macfarlane Burnet : Influenza Virus Genetics.UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
3.30 P.M. (University Union.) Dr. Alfred Blalock (Baltimore):Expanding Scope of Cardiovascular Surgery. (Moynihanlecture.)
Saturday. 15thBIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY
11 A.M. (Department of Physiology, University, Bristol, 8.)Scientific papers.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
BIRTHS
MICHELL.-On April 12, at the Middlesex Hospital, W.1, to Anne,wife of Dr. Guy Michell-a daughter.
DEATHSBRODIE.-On April 21, in Malaya, Dr. Mabel Garland Brodie.
wife of Dr. W. H. Brodie.
