College news Mr Norman Capener We regret to announce the death on 30th March of Mr Norman Capener CBE FRCS, Honorary Gold Medallist and former Senior Vice-President of the College.
Faculty of Anaesthetists At the election to the Board of Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of England held on 5th March I975 Dr D D C Howat, of St George's Hospital, London, was re-elected and Dr T B Boulton, of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, was elected to the Board for an eightyear period.
Fellowship of the Royal Society John Chamley CBE DSC FRCS, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the University of Manchester, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Chamley is Director of the Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, Wigan.
Professor J B Kinmonth J B Kinmonth MS FRCS, Professor of Surgery in the University of London and Director of the Surgical
Unit at St Thomas's Hospital, London, has been elected an Honorary Foreign Member of the Academie de Chirurgie.
Donations to the College During the past few weeks the following generous donations have been received: £50 ooo.oo The Slater Foundation Ltd (further gift) £500.00 Miss Margaret Kilner Io05.00 Slough Estates Ltd (further gift) £o05.00 Wilde, Sapte and Co (further gift) £104.5i F V Smith Esq (7-yr covenant £io p.a. + tax) In addition there have been a number of gifts under £ioo which total £236.2!.
College Dinner The College Dinner on Wednesday I ith June will be followed by a talk by Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, The Constable at HM Tower of London, on 'The Tower of London'. Applications for tickets for the Dinner, price £6.oo including cocktails and wines at table, should reach Mr W F Davis at the College not later than a week before the date of the Dinner.
IN MEMORIAM Sir Zachary Cope The life of Sir Zachary Cope, who died on 28th December 1974 in his 94th year, spanned those times of great change that came with the ending of the Victorian era, the two World Wars bringing us to the brilliance and enigma of today. This steadfast, enduring little giant of a man, like John Bunyan's hero, made his sure and resolute way through all the uncertainties of the age, bringing help to many and lustre to his profession. He was born in Hull on i4th February i88i, the son of a parson. The family moved to London when young Zachary was i i and he spent almost all the rest of his life there. An cntrance scholarship to St Mary's Hospital Medical School brought him into contact with many whose names also belong to the halls of fame, for hc was taught by Augustus Waller, the inventor of the electro-
cardiograph, and by Almroth Wright, pioneer of huiman immunology. Among his fellow students were Fleming, Spilsbury, and Wilson, later to become Lord Moran, whom Cope once described as 'the great dean'. Obtaining his FRCS in I909, he was elected to the staff at St Mary's two years later. The First World War took him as a major in the RAMC to the Middle East, where he was mentioned in despatches. While there he also made observations on the surgical aspects of dysentery, one of his first major publications. Retuming to civilian life, this trend of thought no doubt led him to consider the benefits to be gained from the early recognition and proper treatment of acute surgical abdominal disease, before the terrible and largely untreatable complications of its later stages
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could set in. He must have been one of the first to bring to the surgical bedside the attributes of a clinical scientist. Good examples, not so familiar at that time, were the attention he drew to shoulder pain in subdiaphragmatic peritonitis and a history of intermittent claudication in mesenteric thrombosis, both dangerous and elusive conditions in which safety could be regained by early surgery. The Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen, first published in 1921, was filled with useful observations of this kind. No finer tribute can be paid to this famous book than that of its multitude of readers, whose needs have continued to be met by it over the subsequent 50 years and I4 editions. The key to success of this kind is in the character and motivation of the author. It cannot be achieved
by brains and industry alone, important though these things may be; it must come from a genuine and heartfelt concem and involvement with the subject matter, in this instance the recovery of health and happiness by the patient, and not at all the desire for cleverness and advancement to be recognized. Such things had no meaning to Zachary Cope, whose whole life told the same story, whichever of his many activities one may consider; his first concern was to help others. This same quality brought him four times to the Hunterian Professorship of our College and to most of the other lectureships of distinction that it has to confer on its Fellows. Other honours came later. He served on the Court of Examiners, where he is remembered still for his politeness and humanity in his handling of candidates of every kind and quality. He was elected to Council in 1940, where he is well depicted in the famous painting by Henry Carr, leaning back and looking up in the serious, good-humoured way that was so well known and remembered. The Second World War brought him new and arduous responsibilities beyond his already full life when he became the Officer in Charge of Sector VII of the Emergency Medical Service. With the coming of peace and professional retirement life began anew for him. His literary gifts were channelled into medical history and resulted in, the publication of the history of surgery in the Second World War as well as of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and his own St Mary's Hospital Medical School, and biographies of Florence Nightingale and of William Cheselden. He also -served on many national medical committees and those of the medical societies. Yet with all this he remained bumble and sincere. His best antidote to fame and success and their special hazards was his own reaction to them, characteristically, in simple, charming poems, each with a moral. These were the pattern of a great life. H H G EASTCOTT
DEATHS OF FELLOWS, 1974 In addition to those listed in the January and April issues the following Fellows are known to have died during I974: BACKWELL, Maurice FRCS CLARK, David Owen MBE FRCS DE GAUDART D'ALLAINES, Fransois Louis Paul Hon. FRCS
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GORRILL, Frederick Samuel FRCS HAYDOCK, Geoffrey Arthur FFARCS JACKSON, David Cowan FFARCS KERGIN, Frederick Gordon FRCS OBADIAH, Florence Yokhaybaith FFARCS SANDIFORD, Henry Brian FFARCS TANNER, Clive Howell FRCS
Faculty of Anaesthetists At the election to the Board of Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of England held on 5th March I975 Dr D D C Howat, of St George's Hospital, London, was re-elected and Dr T B Boulton, of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, was elected to the Board for an eightyear period.
Fellowship of the Royal Society John Chamley CBE DSC FRCS, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the University of Manchester, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Chamley is Director of the Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, Wigan.
Professor J B Kinmonth J B Kinmonth MS FRCS, Professor of Surgery in the University of London and Director of the Surgical
Unit at St Thomas's Hospital, London, has been elected an Honorary Foreign Member of the Academie de Chirurgie.
Donations to the College During the past few weeks the following generous donations have been received: £50 ooo.oo The Slater Foundation Ltd (further gift) £500.00 Miss Margaret Kilner Io05.00 Slough Estates Ltd (further gift) £o05.00 Wilde, Sapte and Co (further gift) £104.5i F V Smith Esq (7-yr covenant £io p.a. + tax) In addition there have been a number of gifts under £ioo which total £236.2!.
College Dinner The College Dinner on Wednesday I ith June will be followed by a talk by Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, The Constable at HM Tower of London, on 'The Tower of London'. Applications for tickets for the Dinner, price £6.oo including cocktails and wines at table, should reach Mr W F Davis at the College not later than a week before the date of the Dinner.
IN MEMORIAM Sir Zachary Cope The life of Sir Zachary Cope, who died on 28th December 1974 in his 94th year, spanned those times of great change that came with the ending of the Victorian era, the two World Wars bringing us to the brilliance and enigma of today. This steadfast, enduring little giant of a man, like John Bunyan's hero, made his sure and resolute way through all the uncertainties of the age, bringing help to many and lustre to his profession. He was born in Hull on i4th February i88i, the son of a parson. The family moved to London when young Zachary was i i and he spent almost all the rest of his life there. An cntrance scholarship to St Mary's Hospital Medical School brought him into contact with many whose names also belong to the halls of fame, for hc was taught by Augustus Waller, the inventor of the electro-
cardiograph, and by Almroth Wright, pioneer of huiman immunology. Among his fellow students were Fleming, Spilsbury, and Wilson, later to become Lord Moran, whom Cope once described as 'the great dean'. Obtaining his FRCS in I909, he was elected to the staff at St Mary's two years later. The First World War took him as a major in the RAMC to the Middle East, where he was mentioned in despatches. While there he also made observations on the surgical aspects of dysentery, one of his first major publications. Retuming to civilian life, this trend of thought no doubt led him to consider the benefits to be gained from the early recognition and proper treatment of acute surgical abdominal disease, before the terrible and largely untreatable complications of its later stages
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could set in. He must have been one of the first to bring to the surgical bedside the attributes of a clinical scientist. Good examples, not so familiar at that time, were the attention he drew to shoulder pain in subdiaphragmatic peritonitis and a history of intermittent claudication in mesenteric thrombosis, both dangerous and elusive conditions in which safety could be regained by early surgery. The Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen, first published in 1921, was filled with useful observations of this kind. No finer tribute can be paid to this famous book than that of its multitude of readers, whose needs have continued to be met by it over the subsequent 50 years and I4 editions. The key to success of this kind is in the character and motivation of the author. It cannot be achieved
by brains and industry alone, important though these things may be; it must come from a genuine and heartfelt concem and involvement with the subject matter, in this instance the recovery of health and happiness by the patient, and not at all the desire for cleverness and advancement to be recognized. Such things had no meaning to Zachary Cope, whose whole life told the same story, whichever of his many activities one may consider; his first concern was to help others. This same quality brought him four times to the Hunterian Professorship of our College and to most of the other lectureships of distinction that it has to confer on its Fellows. Other honours came later. He served on the Court of Examiners, where he is remembered still for his politeness and humanity in his handling of candidates of every kind and quality. He was elected to Council in 1940, where he is well depicted in the famous painting by Henry Carr, leaning back and looking up in the serious, good-humoured way that was so well known and remembered. The Second World War brought him new and arduous responsibilities beyond his already full life when he became the Officer in Charge of Sector VII of the Emergency Medical Service. With the coming of peace and professional retirement life began anew for him. His literary gifts were channelled into medical history and resulted in, the publication of the history of surgery in the Second World War as well as of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and his own St Mary's Hospital Medical School, and biographies of Florence Nightingale and of William Cheselden. He also -served on many national medical committees and those of the medical societies. Yet with all this he remained bumble and sincere. His best antidote to fame and success and their special hazards was his own reaction to them, characteristically, in simple, charming poems, each with a moral. These were the pattern of a great life. H H G EASTCOTT
DEATHS OF FELLOWS, 1974 In addition to those listed in the January and April issues the following Fellows are known to have died during I974: BACKWELL, Maurice FRCS CLARK, David Owen MBE FRCS DE GAUDART D'ALLAINES, Fransois Louis Paul Hon. FRCS
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GORRILL, Frederick Samuel FRCS HAYDOCK, Geoffrey Arthur FFARCS JACKSON, David Cowan FFARCS KERGIN, Frederick Gordon FRCS OBADIAH, Florence Yokhaybaith FFARCS SANDIFORD, Henry Brian FFARCS TANNER, Clive Howell FRCS
