MAKING A START

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 10

MAKING A START

NUFFIELD PROFESSORS

FIRST TWO APPOINTMENTS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, January 30.

TheNuffield Benefaction Committee announces the appointment of the first two > professors under Lord Nuffield's £2,000,000 scheme to promote medical and surgical research at Oxford University. They are:—

Surgery.—Mr. H. W. B. Cairns, M.8., B.S. (Adelaide), F.R.C.S., Surgeon, Neurosurgic Department, London Hospital, as from January 26. Anaesthetics. —Dr. Robert Reynolds Macintosh, F.R.C.S. (Edin.), of Upper Brook Street, W., Hon; Anaesthetist, Throat Hospital, Golden Square, and Hon. Anaesthetist and Lecturer on Anaesthetics to the National Dental Hospital, as from February 1. Other appointments will be made later.

Dr. Macintosh belongs to Oamaru, and he was educated at the Waitaki Boys' High School. He came to London a number of years ago and served during the early part of the war with the Black Watch and the Royal Scots Fusiliers; then he joined the Royal Flying Corps. For some time he was a prisoner of war in Germany. In 1919 he was repatriated and after the Armistice he went to the Argentine. On returning to England, he began a course of medical study at Guy's Hospital, passing the first professional examination of the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. He passed the second professional examination, in February, 1922: In due course he established himself: in London, where he is a well-known member of the medical profession.

Mr. Cairns has been responsible for some of the most striking feats in brain surgery in recent years. He went to the London Hospital from the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was the chief of the five doctors who, in 1932, performed a remarkable operation at the London Hospital on a school teacher who had a tumour on the brain, and who was going blind. An all-day operation resulted in the successful removal of the tumour, and the patient's sight was restored.

Lord McGowan, managing director of Imperial Chemicals' Institute, is to be the guest of honour at a luncheon to be given by tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce, at the Royal Oak Hotel, on February 24.