Dr W. J. Rees

Dr J. W. Ballantyne

Some letters from Cardinal Newman to Dr. J. W. Ogle.

RECENTLY IN the Autograph Letters Collection of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine there were found six letters written by Cardinal Newman to a Dr. Ogle. They date from 7 November 1884 to 12 August 1887. Newman died in 1890 at the age of eighty-nine, so that these letters come from the last period of his life when, having been created Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879, he was liv...

Dr W. H. Hylton

Dr William H. Hylton, formerly a general practitioner in Clevedon died suddenly on March 20th at the age of 83. William Hawkins Hylton?Bill, was born in Leeds in 1906. He was educated at Bridlington College. His father ran a building firm but died tragically of acute appendicitis when his son was aged 14. Bill intending to pursue the same career entered Leeds University and took a degree in eng...

Address at the Memorial Service to Dr. T. P. Rees

Rees was born in 1899 in Wales. He was one of eight sons of a Welsh farlllri That he was Welsh and that he had always belonged to a happy family group vve. i characteristics which marked his later career and contributed to the formation of character his friends knew. He qualified from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in y'. and graduated in the University of Wales two years later. His interest in psy...

Dr. J. Tylor Fox

Although Superintendent of Lingfield Colony for 30 years, Dr. Fox was always firm in his belief that colony life was only essential for a minority of patients, and even for them that it should only be regarded as a period for stabilization and drug adjustment. It was one of his greatest satisfactions that the last 10 or 15 years showed such startling changes in drug therapy. He often said that ...