Hubert Wyers.

Limited, Murex, and the Cape Asbestos Company Limited. Thus in his work he was confronted by the numerous and varied medical hazards of the fine chemicals, metallurgical, and asbestos industries. To all the emerging problems he brought a wide and mature experience, which was enhanced by careful observation, accurate recording, and shrewd judgment. He made important contributions to knowledge of poisoning by vanadium, cadmium, and methyl bromide. Skin diseases in industry were his special interest and until his death he was a clinical assistant in the Skin Department at Oldchurch Hospital. In 1947 he was awarded the degree of M.D. by Glasgow University with commendation for his thesis on " Asbestosis " and in 1948 he obtained the Diploma in Industrial Health of the Conjoint Examining Board in England, for which diploma he was later appointed examiner. He was an enthusiastic member of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers, serving as member of Council and chairman of the London Group. He was editor of the Transactions of the Association from the formation of that journal in 1951 until his death. An honour which gave him particular satisfaction was his election as chairman of the South Essex division of the British Medical Association. He was one of the original four founder members of the Thackrah Club. Despite his many appointments and other professional activities he found time to be a skilled beekeeper, including the preparation of mead, a keen gardener, and an expert collector of early Roman coins. And all through his life he never relaxed his interest in the classics and philosophy. Perhaps it was these studies which, about two years before his death, influenced him to become a convert to Roman Catholicism. In the Church and its priests he discovered deep kinship and consolation. Hubert Wyers was a wise physician with a deep reverence for life. With Terence he could sincerely affirm: "homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto." This was his concept of the physician in industry: " He should be a man of wide culture, versed in history and customs of the race and in the laws of thought. Above all, he should have a flame burning in his heart for the sick man. To use a phrase of G. K. Chesterton, he should not be able to see the mob for the men." He was no ascetic; for him there was no greater pleasure than the company of good companions enjoying fine English food graced by what he would call " the old Falemian ". We shall remember him in the words of Horace: " integer vitae, scelerisque purus." He is survived by his wife and his mother. A. MEIKLEJOHN OBITUARY