Dr.W.C.Bosanquet

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DR. WILLIAM CECIL BOSANQUET, a distinguished London physician and classical scholar, died on January 24 at the age of seventy-four. He was educated at Eton where he was a King's scholar, at Oxford where he gained a first class in Classical Moderations and Lit.Hum. and was elected a fellow of New College, and at Charing Cross Hospital. He qualified B.M. and D.M.(Oxon.) in 1897, and seven years later was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, before which he delivered the Goul-stonian Lecture in 1905, his subject being “The Nature and Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus”. He was physician to Charing Cross Hospital, the Bromp-ton Hospital for Consumption, the Victoria Hospital for Children, and the Lock Hospital. During the War of 1914-18, in which he was Captain and Major in the R.A.M.C., he served as consulting physician in the North Western Frontier Force, India. His literary activity, both as editor and author, was considerable. Besides being editor of the Practitioner for some years, he was assistant editor of the third edition of “Quain's Dictionary of Medicine”(1902) and editor of the eleventh (1911) to thirteenth (1923) editions of Green's “Manual of Pathology and Morbid Anatomy”. In addition to numerous articles in the Lancet and British Medical Journal, he was the author of “Serums, Vaccines and Toxins”(1904), in the second and third editions of which Dr. J. W. H. Eyre was his collaborator, “The Stomach, Intestines and Pancreas” with Mr. H. S. Clogg, his surgical colleague at Charing Cross Hospital (1909), and “Spirochaetes: A Review of Recent Work with Some Original Observations”(1911). In his last work,, written in retirement three years before his death, entitled “Meditatio Medici: a Doctor's Philosophy of Life”, he discussed the ancient and modern views, of the material universe, the development of man, the physical aspects of consciousness or mind and the principles of voluntary action or conduct.