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OBITUARIES 



SIE RICHAED QUAIN, Bart. 



Born at Mallow, Oct. 30, 1816. Died in London, March 13, 1898 



EiCHAKD QuAiN was the son of Mr John Quain, of Carrigoon, Cork, 

 and a relation of Dr Jones Quain, the co-editor of " Quain and 

 Sharpey's Anatomy." He spent the first twenty years of his life in 

 Ireland, having been educated at Cloyne, and later apprenticed to a 

 surgeon at Limerick. At twenty Quain came to London, and con- 

 tinued his medical studies at University College Hospital, where he 

 was House Surgeon for five years. In 1840 he took the degree of 

 M.B. at the University of London, winning the scholarship and gold 

 medal in physiology. In 1842 he took his M.D. degree, being the 

 only candidate to whom the gold medal and the certificate of pro- 

 ficiency were awarded ; and within the next four years (before he was 

 thirty) he was elected a Fellow of the University. He is best known 

 as a specialist on diseases of the heart, chest, and kidneys, and was 

 for many years consulting physician to the Hospital for the Diseases 

 of the Chest at Brompton. In 1851 he was elected a Fellow of the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians, of which College he had been a member 

 for five years, and of which later he became the vice-president. In 

 1860 he was nominated a member of the Senate of London University, 

 and in 1863 Crown representative on the General Medical Council. 

 He was a most valuable member of this body, acting as its treasurer 

 for some years, and was elected its president in 1891. In 1887 the 

 Eoyal University of Ireland conferred the honorary degree of M.D. 

 upon him, an example which was followed by Trinity College, Dublin, 

 in 1890, while in 1889 he had received from Edinburgh University 

 the title of LL.D. He was a Fellow of the Eoyal Society. 



Of his numerous writings he will be best remembered by his 

 " Dictionary of Medicine," edited in his leisure hours between 1872 

 and 1882, in which year it was published in a massive volume of 

 1800 pages. In 1852 he published his treatise on " The Fatty 

 Diseases of the Heart." In 1872 he delivered the Lumleian Lecture 

 on the " Diseases of the Muscular Walls of the Heart," and in 1885 

 the Harveian Oration on " The Healing Art in its Historic and 

 Prophetic Aspects." 



The death is also announced of Dr T. C. Winkler, for many years 

 curator of the Teyler Museum, Haarlem. He was much interested 

 in the fossil vertebrate animals, of which he had a very fine collection 

 under his charge. He contributed several articles on the specimens 

 in the Teyler Museum to the Archives published by that institution. 



