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to leave his room for a short time. Both doctors were attacked with the fever on the 16th 
instant, Dr. Durham's case declaring itself first, his colleague procuring him a carriage to convey 
him from the L. S. Institute to the hospital. A few hours later Dr. Myers was found to be 
with a high fever, and it was at once found that in his case the disease was of a malignant type. 
They were treated at the Yellow Fever Hospital, and everything possible was done for them. 
Besides the nurses, a doctor was always at the hospital, and Dr. Paes de Carvalho was with 
them two or three times daily. It is supposed that both doctors contracted the disease during an 
autopsy on a very malignant case of yellow fever, which had occurred at the hospital two or three 
days previous. — Yours truly, 
p. pro. SINGLEHURST, BROCKLEHURST & CO., 
{Signed) A. J. BEALE. 
Para, Brazil, January 23, 1901. 
The following obituary notice of Dr. Walter Myers appeared in the British 
Medical Journal of February 2, 1901. 
Walter Myers was born twenty-nine years ago, and was the son of Mr. George 
Myers, a well-known Birmingham citizen. He was educated at King Edward's School. After 
leaving school he studied in the Biological Laboratories of Mason College from 1888 to 1890 
while preparing for the Intermediate Examination for the B.Sc. Lond. degree, which he took in 
1892. In the Botanical Laboratory of Mason College — where he won the Senior Botanical 
Prize in 1890 — he developed that strong taste for microscopical study which played an important 
part in subsequently determining his mental bias in his purely medical studies. He proceeded to 
Cambridge in 1890, having won a Natural Science Scholarship at Caius College, and graduated 
M.B., B.C. in 1897. 
Those who knew Myers and the work that he has carried on in recent years know how 
great a loss his death will be to the science of medicine. The late Professor Kanthack was 
early struck by the scientific enthusiasm and acumen displayed by Myers when he came to work 
in his laboratory, and before the late professor died he recommended Myers for the John Lucas 
Walker Scholarship on the understanding that he should continue his work on immunity, more 
especially with the ferments found in diseased products and in the blood. 
After working for a short time at Cambridge, Myers received word that he would be 
allowed to continue his investigations in Professor Ehrlich's Laboratory, where he entered so 
thoroughly into the spirit of the place that he soon produced further excellent work on cobra 
poisoning, and commenced an investigation on the action of the various forms of proteids and 
their anti-bodies. This work, of which he had published a preliminary account before he left on 
the Yellow Fever Expedition, following up that already carried out by Ehrlich, is one of the 
most important of recent contributions to the study of immunity. 
His more important papers : ' Cobra Poison in Relation to Wassermann's New Theory of 
Immunity' {Lancet, 1898, vol. ii, p. 23) ; 'The Action of Cobra Poison on the Blood : a Contri- 
bution to the Study of Passive Immunity' (in collaboration with Mr. J. W. W. Stephens, M.A., 
M.B. Cantab.) [Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, 1898, vol. v, p. 279) ; 'On the Interaction of 
Toxin and Antitoxin : Illustrated by the Reaction between Cobra Lysin and its Antitoxin' {pp. 
cit., 1900, vol. vi, p. 415) ; Myers (and Stephens): 'Influence of Cobra Poison in the Clotting of 
