MARTYRS TO SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 121, 16 February 1920, Page 7

MARTYRS TO SCIENCE

1 SELF-SACRIFICE IN CAUSK OF . DUTY.. The Middlesex Hospital, which is making a special appeal for ,£200,1100, toeß , its claim not only on its ordinary labours and its care of 10,000 wounded, soldiers, but on its scientific research. A member of the scientific staff, Dr. Cecil Lyster, is now lying in a critical conidition consequent on his self-sacrifice in tho cause of duty. Par ye.'rs lie I'.as been in charge of the electric therapeutic department, and now suffers, as others have suffered before him, from his ardent atudy of X-ra.vs nnd their I pplicitt:on. Disease and danger of worse could not persuade him to discontinue his work, to which he stack (ill prostrated. Another martyr to soieuce is -ecalled by the publication of Mr. Stephen Pnget's "Life of Sir Victor Horsley." The most brilliant surgeon of ) is day and generation, Sir Victor perished from his zeal in trying to improve the lot of our sick and wounded soldieis in [Mesopotamia. lie lies in a eoldicT's grave, and no soldier lias more nobly •won that honourable rest. Sir Victor entered tho full stndy of medicine in 1875 at University College, then the inly medical school in London, and '■ erhaos in the whole country, which 1 its pupils into direct touch vnth the latest and best medical <iiacoveries. At 2-8 ho was recognised in "tho hospitals of Europe and America as a leader of medical progress. He was only 59 'vhen he died on the banks of the Tigris.