William Baird McQuitty--clinician.

نویسنده

  • H. W. Gallagher
چکیده

IT IS SAID of the Irish that our memories are far too long and instead of preparing for the future we live in the past. This may apply to our socio-political outlook but we are all too ready to forget the giants on whose shoulders we stand. The only advantage in looking backwards is to prepare for the future and by examining the life and work of one of those giants, whose name is better known than his career, we may be able to learn something for our own improvement and to the advantage of our students in the future. The man to whom I refer is, of course, William Baird McQuitty, whose name is remembered in the McQuitty Scholarship of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. This scholarship is unique. It is the only prize, awarded by that hospital, to be established by public subscription. The initial subscriptions were given at a public meeting held under the Chairmanship of the Lord Mayor of Belfast in January, 1911. The sudden death of Dr. William Baird McQuitty on the 30th December, 1910, after an illness of only a

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Ulster Medical Journal

دوره 44  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1975