A Study of Antimetabolites

Pettus gave everything he had as a medical missionary in China and Dr. Edward H. Hume has drawn a clear and sympathetic picture of this man, his aspirations, and those qualities which distinguished him as a medical scientist at home and abroad. On 23 November 1945 was received the melancholy cablegram from Huangping, China, which read as follows: "Dr. Pettus killed in airplane accident at Huangping Kweichow. Immediately sending men to the scene. Have wired Fulton [Dr. Brank Fulton]. Please cable instructions regarding burial . . . H. C. Chang, Dean." The crash had actually occurred on 18 November. Pettus thus had only ten years in the active practice of medicine in his chosen field as a medical missionary in Central China. Sir William Osler once referred to John McCrae who wrote the imperishable lines, Flanders Fields, as one who was "doubly dead because he died so young." This sentiment applies equally to Winston Pettus, M.D. 1937, of the Yale School of Medicine.