832 SIR THOMAS LAUDER BRUNTON. 



in 1871. This hospital connection lasted for thirty-three years, 

 twenty as assistant, and nine as physician. He then resigned before 

 he had reached the age limit, and became Consulting Physician and 

 Governor to the Hospital. He acquired fame as a consultant, and 

 among those who sought his advice were many Americans. 



He was a prodigious worker. This is not the place for a full list of 

 his publications and activities. At thirty he was elected a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society. He was Goulstonian, Lettsomian, and Croonian 

 lecturer, and Harveian orator. He was Fellow of the Royal College 

 of Physicians, and for years one of the examiners; prominent in the 

 British Medical Association, knighted in 1900, created Baronet in 

 1908. His writings, which are many and varied, deal mainly with 

 Pharmacology and Therapeutics, based upon and colored by experi- 

 mental physiology. In this line of work he was among the first. A 

 hint of the breadth of his therapeutic horizon is afforded by his paper 

 on "The Science of Easy Chairs," originally printed in Nature. His 

 largest work was his text book of Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and 

 Materia Medica, 1885. Several editions were called for, and also 

 translations in several languages. Other books were "Disorders of 

 Digestion," "Disorders of Assimilation," "Collected Papers on Circu- 

 lation and Respiration," and "Therapeutics of the Circulation." 

 The first edition of the latter appeared in 1908, a second March 14, 

 1914, "My 70th birthday," as he writes in a presentation and greatly 

 valued copy to the writer of this inadequate sketch. It is interesting 

 to note that this last named book was dedicated to Kronecker, a fellow 

 worker in Leipsic under Ludwig, and a life-long friend. Brunton had 

 actively supported all plans for furthering national health, school 

 hygiene, and military training, and foresaw the inevitability of the 

 present war. In August, 1915, Sir Douglas Haig writes him, — 

 " You and I have often talked about the certainty of this war, and have 

 done (each of us) our best to prepare in our own spheres for it." 



He thought he had many valued friends among the German pro- 

 fessors, and was not prepared for their attitude toward the war in 

 general, and the British in particular. This attitude was a great 

 grief to him. In October, 1915, his younger son was killed in action in 

 France. His heart had for years given him trouble, at times serious, 

 righted itself more than once,^but finally gave out after distressing 

 disability. 



F. C. Shattuck. 



