﻿Thomas 
  Gregor 
  Brodie. 
  

  

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  This 
  is 
  an 
  illustration 
  of 
  the 
  way 
  scientific 
  workers 
  are 
  rewarded 
  in 
  this 
  

   country. 
  But 
  his 
  determination 
  and 
  energy 
  carried 
  him 
  through 
  ; 
  he 
  

   performed 
  his 
  duties 
  with 
  success 
  in 
  all, 
  and 
  original 
  researches 
  continued 
  in 
  

   spite 
  of 
  his 
  other 
  duties 
  to 
  issue 
  from 
  his 
  laboratories, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  carried 
  

   out 
  by 
  himself 
  and 
  his 
  colleagues. 
  But 
  though 
  his 
  energy 
  was 
  untiring, 
  it 
  

   was 
  a 
  dog's 
  life 
  that 
  he 
  led, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  his 
  undaunted 
  spirit 
  alone 
  which 
  

   overcame 
  his 
  physical 
  fatigue. 
  In 
  190-1 
  he 
  received 
  his 
  F.R.S., 
  and 
  until 
  1908 
  

   he 
  continued 
  in 
  the 
  unsatisfactory 
  position 
  of 
  successfully 
  serving 
  three 
  

   masters. 
  In 
  the 
  last-named 
  year, 
  he 
  received 
  an 
  offer 
  of 
  the 
  Chair 
  of 
  

   Physiology 
  in 
  Toronto 
  University, 
  its 
  previous 
  occupant, 
  Prof. 
  Macallum, 
  

   having 
  decided 
  to 
  devote 
  his 
  work 
  to 
  Biochemistry. 
  In 
  the 
  end 
  Brodie 
  

   accepted 
  the 
  invitation 
  and 
  held 
  this 
  Professorship 
  until 
  his 
  death. 
  For 
  

   domestic 
  reasons 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  the 
  education 
  of 
  his 
  sons, 
  

   he 
  continued 
  to 
  keep 
  on 
  his 
  London 
  house, 
  and 
  here 
  (in 
  Hampstead) 
  he 
  spent 
  

   the 
  long 
  vacations 
  which 
  Canadian 
  Professors 
  enjoy. 
  Not 
  that 
  he 
  took 
  much 
  

   real 
  holiday, 
  for 
  research 
  work 
  continued 
  to 
  occupy 
  his 
  time. 
  The 
  Toronto 
  

   Professorship 
  was 
  no 
  sinecure 
  ; 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  his 
  heavy 
  teaching 
  responsi- 
  

   bilities, 
  he 
  had 
  to 
  organise 
  his 
  laboratory, 
  and 
  he 
  made 
  the 
  bare 
  bones 
  of 
  the 
  

   new 
  buildings 
  placed 
  at 
  his 
  disposal 
  live, 
  and 
  his 
  laboratory 
  blossomed 
  into 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  complete 
  in 
  the 
  world. 
  It 
  was 
  replete 
  with 
  every 
  modern 
  

   convenience 
  and 
  the 
  generosity 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Canadian 
  

   Government 
  enabled 
  him 
  to 
  make 
  its 
  equipment 
  second 
  to 
  none. 
  For 
  the 
  

   first 
  time 
  in 
  his 
  life 
  he 
  was 
  freed 
  from 
  niggling 
  considerations 
  of 
  sparing- 
  

   expense, 
  and 
  his 
  famous 
  laboratory 
  still 
  hives 
  as 
  a 
  monument 
  to 
  his 
  wise 
  use 
  

   of 
  public 
  money. 
  

  

  In 
  1915, 
  he 
  came 
  over 
  here 
  in 
  a 
  different 
  capacity, 
  namely, 
  as 
  a 
  Captain 
  

   in 
  the 
  Canadian 
  Medical 
  Service, 
  and 
  here 
  his 
  ability 
  for 
  original 
  thought 
  

   and 
  work 
  proved 
  invaluable. 
  In 
  this 
  country 
  his 
  work 
  was 
  carried 
  out 
  at 
  

   the 
  London 
  School 
  of 
  Medicine 
  for 
  Women, 
  at 
  the 
  Endell 
  Street 
  Hospital, 
  

   and 
  later 
  at 
  the 
  Military 
  Hospital, 
  Eamsgate, 
  where 
  also 
  he 
  worked 
  in 
  

   the 
  summer 
  of 
  1916, 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  his 
  death. 
  Eespiratory 
  changes 
  in 
  disease 
  

   and 
  injury 
  formed 
  his 
  magnum 
  opus 
  in 
  this 
  connection, 
  also 
  the 
  means 
  of 
  

   re-educating 
  maimed 
  men 
  to 
  enable 
  them 
  to 
  resume 
  a 
  useful 
  life. 
  

  

  His 
  published 
  papers 
  make 
  a 
  long 
  list, 
  and 
  their 
  subjects 
  embrace 
  nearly 
  

   every 
  branch 
  of 
  physiological 
  science. 
  But 
  his 
  main 
  bent, 
  as 
  was 
  fore- 
  

   shadowed 
  by 
  his 
  first 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  ' 
  Elasticity 
  of 
  Muscle,' 
  was 
  physical. 
  He 
  

   will, 
  perhaps, 
  be 
  best 
  remembered 
  for 
  his 
  epoch-marking 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  

   Kidney, 
  and 
  his 
  views 
  on 
  the 
  function 
  of 
  the 
  Glomeruli 
  formed 
  the 
  subject 
  

   of 
  his 
  Croonian 
  Lecture 
  delivered 
  before 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society. 
  But 
  whatever 
  

   his 
  subject, 
  his 
  great 
  originality 
  was 
  his 
  most 
  marked 
  characteristic, 
  and 
  his 
  

   never-failing 
  resourcefulness 
  in 
  overcoming 
  difficulties 
  by 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  new 
  

   methods 
  and 
  apparatus 
  made 
  his 
  name 
  famous. 
  He 
  published 
  also 
  a 
  : 
  Text- 
  

   book 
  of 
  Experimental 
  Physiology,' 
  which 
  still 
  remains 
  a 
  standard 
  and 
  a 
  

   pattern 
  to 
  his 
  successors 
  in 
  the 
  book-making 
  line. 
  He 
  was 
  not 
  a 
  ready 
  

   writer, 
  but 
  all 
  he 
  wrote 
  was 
  a 
  model 
  of 
  care 
  and 
  thoughtfulness. 
  He 
  made 
  

  

  