lx Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



by the author's drawings, but numerous woodcuts are also collected at the end 

 of the volume figuring the structure of human tissues.* 



A third volume, of very different character, was published many years later, 

 and reached a second edition in 1882. It is a reprint of lectures on medicine 

 at King's College, and is specially occupied with " Slight Ailments," with no 

 reference to histology or carmine. It is of purely practical value, and by 

 its many shrewd observations shows a power of observation at the bedside 

 that no one would have expected who was only acquainted with his 

 histological works. 



In his later life Dr. Beale wrote chiefly in defence of vitality as a cause of 

 living phenomena. He held strong convictions on its application to meta- 

 physics and theology, and on these subjects was much influenced by the late 

 Dr. Thring, of Uppingham, and Dr. Wace, the present Dean of Canterbury. 



Professor Osier writes as follows of Beale's reputation in the United States 

 and Canada (' Lancet,' April 7, 1906) : — " The influence of Dr. Beale as a 

 scientific investigator and a clinical physician was much more widespread than 

 perhaps was recognised in London or Great Britain at large. In part, at 

 least, the unfortunate terminology was responsible for the unpopularity 

 of his views in some quarters. Both in Canada and the United States there 

 are scores of men of my day who, like myself, knew Dr. Beale only by his 

 writings, who will hear of the death of their old teacher with sincere regret, 

 and who will recall with gratitude labour which often helped to lighten 

 their own." 



Titles of Some of the most Important Scientific Papers of Dr. Beale. 



His first book was on " The Microscope and its Application in Practical 

 Medicine : a Course of Lectures, 1854." 



1853. " On the Absence of Chlorides from the Urine in Cases of Pneu- 



monia." ' Med. Chir. Trans.' 



1854. " The Microscope in Clinical Medicine." 



1856. " On the Anatomy of the Biliary Ducts." ' Phil. Trans.,' published 



separately, with sixty photographs of the author's drawings. 



1857. " How to Work with the Microscope." 



The two books were slightly varied in title in successive 

 editions and overlapped. 



The fourth and last edition of " The Microscope in Medicine " 

 was published in 1878. 



The fifth and last edition of " How to Work with the Micro- 

 scope " was published in 1880. 



The Croonian Lecture delivered before the Eoyal Society of 

 Physicians, " On Life and Vital Action in Health and Disease," 

 show that every structure consists of matter which is the seat of 



* Both books were modified in title in successive editions. 



