Dr. R. C. Wallace

Dr. Wallace and Dr. Stone reply.

Dr. William Wallace (1791-1837) of Dublin.

THE name William Wallace, M.D., M.R.I.A., of Dublin is inseparably associated with the use of potassium iodide in the treatment of syphilis. The reasons for his neglect by medical historians is, however, not surprising and for two reasons. Wallace lived at a time when the Dublin medical school was at its height and star-studded with such giants in the field of syphilology as Colles, Clutterbuck...

Foreword re C. S. Wallace

One of the second generation of computer scientists, Chris Wallace completed his tertiary education in 1959 with a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, on cosmic ray showers, under Dr Paul George at Sydney University. Needless to say, computer science was not, at that stage, an established academic discipline. With Max Brennan and John Malos he had designed and built a large automatic data logging system ...

Dr. Colin R. Tribe

Most medical lives are spent being busy. When we are honest with ourselves, usually in the early hours of the morning, we know that we haven't given enough time to colleagues, wives, children and other members of our families. Outside medicine we all meet friends who say as much, usually with exceptional politeness. A successful academic colleague, the son of a retired general medical practitio...

Dr R P Warin

Obituary British dermatology and the Bristol medical community suffered a grievous loss on 1.7.92 when Bob and Anne warm vvere both killed in a car crash near Salisbury, while they were travelling to the Bournemouth Meeting of the British and he and Anne had been such central figures in the Association for so many years that it was difficult to believe he Meeting could continue in their absence...