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OBITUARY. 



FRANCOIS CLEMENT MAILLOT. 



Born 1804. Died 1894. 



O commonplace is now the employment of quinine in the treat- 

 ment of malarial fevers that the very names of those who first 

 advocated its use are already omitted from our text-books, and in 

 danger of passing from our memories. 



The death of Dr. Maillot, at the advanced age of 91, recalls 

 the services he rendered sixty years ago, not only to medicine, but 

 to the world at large. Educated at Metz, he entered the career of 

 military medicine, and in 1834 he was stationed at Bona, in Algeria, 

 then newly colonised by France. The malarious climate was pro- 

 ducing an enormous mortahty among the new-comers, and it 

 seemed an open question whether it would be possible to retain the 

 colony. Maillot, who had already had some experience of malaria in 

 Corsica, at once devoted himself to the study of the intermittent fevers 

 of the district and their treatment by large doses of quinine, and with 

 such success that the mortality from malaria is said to have fallen 

 from 25 to 5 per cent. The actual discovery of the value of the 

 cinchona alkaloids in the treatment of ague was, of course, long before 

 this ; but it may at least be claimed for Maillot that his advocacy of 

 the employment of quinine not only popularised the remedy and 

 saved thousands of lives, but demonstrated also the possibility of 

 European colonisation of a highly malarious country. 



A tardy recognition of his services to miUtary medicine was made 

 in 1888, when a pension of 6,000 fr. was conferred upon him ; but it 

 was not till last year that his numerous writings, dating from 1834 to 

 1887, and all devoted to this one subject, were collected and pubhshed 

 in connected form. 



REV. W. M. HIND, LL.D. 

 Born 1815. Died 1894. 



1T7E regret to announce the death of the Rev. W. M. Hind, LL.D., 

 YV Rector of Honington, Suffolk, at the ripe age of 79. For a 

 long period he had devoted the greater part of his spare time to 

 botanical field work, and was possessed of a wide and accurate 

 knowledge of our British wild plants, many of the rarer forms of 

 which he had cultivated and observed. Born in Belfast of English 



