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many of the essentials of medical practice. In 1837 he entered the 

 University College of London, where his two consins were, the one 

 Demonstrator, the other Professor of Descriptive and Practical 

 Anatomy, from whom he seems to have received much sympathy and 

 valuable instruction. In this School of Medicine he studied with 

 much diligence, and his perseverance and keen powers of observation 

 obtained for him many distinctions. 



In 1840 he graduated as M.B. of the University of London, obtain- 

 ing high honours in physiology, surger}', and midwifery. He con- 

 tinued to gain much experience in the appointments of "Resident 

 Surgeon or Physician at the hospital, and in 1842 he obtained the 

 degree of M.D. at the London University, receiving a gold medal and 

 certificate of special proficiency. He was soon afterwards elected a 

 Fellow of University College. 



In 1848 he became Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Diseases 

 of the Chest, at Brompton, where he was associated with Drs. "Walsh, 

 Theophilus Thompson, and Cotton. In 1855 he was elected 

 Physician to this hospital, and his connection with it as a Consulting 

 Physician continued till the time of his death. He was also Con- 

 sulting Physician to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich, and to the 

 Consumption Hospital at Ventnor. 



In 1851 Quain was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of 

 Physicians, and was identified with it till the time of his death ; for 

 he was a member of the Council, Censor, Lumleian Lecturer, Senior 

 Censor in 1877, Harveian Orator in 1885, and Vice- President in 

 1889. In 1888, on Sir William Jenner's retirement, he contested 

 the Presidency with Sir Andrew Clark, who, however, was elected, 

 though only by eight votes, in a large meeting. 



In 1863 Quain was elected as Crown nominee of the Medical 

 Council, and continued in that post till his death. He was a moving 

 spirit in all the work of that body ; he was a member of many com- 

 mittees, serving with great distinction on the Pharmacopoeia Com- 

 mittee, which he seemed to make his special care, though most active 

 on several others. The services he rendered to this Council in the 

 various offices he held were most valuable, and the result was his 

 appointment, on the death of Mr. John Marshall in 1891, to the post 

 of President, to which he was unanimously re-elected on the expiry 

 of his first term of office in 1896, when he gave a valuable address, 

 clearly setting forth the questions in which the Council were in- 

 terested and his own practical and statesman- like view of the 

 methods of dealing with them. His predecessors in this important 

 office were Sir Benjamin Brodie, Joseph Henry Green, Sir George 

 Burrows, Sir George Edward Paget, Sir Henry Acland, and John 

 Marshall, none of them more devoted to the duties or more efficient 

 as President of the Council than himself. 



