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like their patients without hyperparathyroidism. Their renalfunction was in other respects unimpaired. A young patientwith renal stones but without hyperparathyroidism was alsostudied, and she performed very poorly in response to mannitolinfusion. However, it was later decided that her calculi weredue to renal tubular acidosis.

The response to ammonium-chloride loading was alsotested, and the results are included in the table. Two of thehyperparathyroid subjects behaved normally in this respectalso; the third one was given a lower dose of ammoniumchloride than is suggested by Fourman et al.

My results suggest that not all hyperparathyroidsubjects behave abnormally during osmotic diuresisinduced by mannitol infusion, and following ammonium-chloride loading. However, it should be remembered thatthe conditions under which I infused mannitol differed

slightly from those used by Fourman et al.

MARY G. MCGEOWN.Department of Medicine,

Institute of Clinical Science,Queen’s University of Belfast.

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Obituary

DOUGLAS JAMES ACWORTH KERRM.D. Edin., F.R.C.P.E., D.P.H., F.R.S.E.

Dr. Douglas Kerr, regius professor of forensic medicinein the University of Edinburgh since 1953, died onMarch 23 at the age of 65.

He was born at Bradford and was educated at St. Paul’sSchool, London, and the University of Edinburgh. He waswounded in 1914 while serving with the Royal Artillery, andtransferred to an anti-aircraft unit of the Royal Flying Corps.In 1918 he returned to Edinburgh to complete his studies,graduating M.B. in 1920. After qualifying he held residentposts at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1922 took the D.P.H.In 1927 he took the M.D. with commendation and was electedF.R.C.P.E. Two years later he was appointed police surgeonand medical referee to the City of Edinburgh, an appointmentwhich he continued to hold after he succeeded Sir SydneySmith in ths chair of forensic medicine in 1953.

Professor Kerr was well known in Scotland as a medicalwitness who was both expert and fair. His Textbook ofForensic Medicine, first published in 1935, was illustratedwith photographs and cases from his wide medicolegalpractice. Though originally written for students-he wasfor many years a lecturer at Surgeons’ Hall-it hasoffered useful guidance to many practitioners, and a sixthedition was published in 1957. Professor Kerr was the

representative of the Royal College of Physicians of

Edinburgh on the General Medical Council.F. S. F. writes:"

Douglas Kerr had a high sense of duty and walked verysteadfastly in accordance with the principles in which hebelieved. He was a man of great courage. By reason of hiswork as medical referee he was well known by repute to a widecircle; but he was a reserved man who shunned the limelight.He had, however, great gifts of sympathy, understanding, and

compassion and he had his own unobtrusive way of expressingthis very real aspect of his personality."

In 1935 Professor Kerr married Phyllis McGregor,who survives him with two sons and a daughter.

MONTY TOOHEYM.D. Dubl., M.R.C.P., D.C.H.

Dr. Toohey, consultant physician at New End Hos-pital, London, died on March 21 at the age of 45.

Dr. Toohey was born in Limerick and he was educated atWesley College and Trinity College, Dublin. After graduatingM.B. in 1936, he held resident hospital appointments in Dublinand at Booth Hall, Manchester, and took the D.C.H. in 1938and the M.R.c.P. in 1939. During the late war he served withthe R.A.M.C. in India, France, and the Far East, and waspromoted to lieut.-colonel in charge of a medical division.After the war, he became consultant physician to New EndHospital, and thenceforward his main medical activities werecentred there.

During the last four or five years, he had made a special studyof long-term treatment of atherosclerosis and ischaemic heart-disease by anticoagulants, and his enthusiasm was responsiblefor the establishment at New End Hospital of a large, well-organised clinic. He wrote many articles for scientific andmedical journals on the treatment of ischxmic heart-diseaseby anticoagulants and methods of control, and earlier he

published a book, Medicine for Nurses, which has become astandard work.

J. E. P. writes:" A little over three years ago Dr. Toohey’s health began to

fail and though he knew that he should have curtailed hisactivities both in his clinic and in research, the fact onlyseemed to spur him on to greater efforts. He took a greatinterest in the activities of his hospital and he was admired andrespected by his colleagues and by his patients and staff. Hisloss to the hospital and to medicine is something one canhardly gauge, though the results already obtained at his clinicmust ultimately prove of the greatest value in the final evalua-tion of the treatment of coronary disease."

Dr. Toohey is survived by his widow and two daughters.

AppointmentsBANERJEE, RAHUL, M.B. Cantab., D.P.M.: senior assistant psychiatrist, Scartho

Road Hospital, Grimsby.BEAVER, M. W., M.B. Lond.: assistant M.o.H. and school M.o., Northampton.COLLINS, G. H., M.D. Glasg., D.P.M.: consultant psychiatrist, Kingsway

Hospital, Derby.HUTCHINSON, R. IRENE, M.D. Birm., D.P.H., D.T.M.: consultant pathologist,

Southampton group of hospitals.JARVIS, H. C. M., M.B.E., M.B. Lond.: M.o. to the police and fire brigade,

Brighton.JoHNSON, THELMA D., M.B. Birm., M.C.R.A. : assistant radiotherapist,

St. Thomas’s Hospital, London.JONES, P. H., M.v.o., F.R.C.S.: consultant surgeon (cardiac surgery), United

Manchester Hospitals and Regional Hospital Board.PARKINSON, EILEEN L., M.R.C.S. : assistant M.o.H. and school M.o., Northamp-

ton.

SwEETNAM, D. R., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S.: assistant orthopedic surgeon, Mid-dlesex Hospital, London.

Birmingham Regional Hospital Board :CRAMMER, J. L., M.R.C.S., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist, All Saints’

Hospital and Uffculme Early Treatment Centre, Birmingham.HONNEYMAN, F. D., M.D. Belf., M.R.C.P.E.: part-time consultant physician

(geriatrics), Wolverhampton and Walsall groups of hospitals.NEWCOMBE, JOHN, M.B. Lond., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist, Monyhull

Hall Hospital.. Birmingham.Newcastle Regional Hospital Board :

BERRY, T. A., M.B., B.SC. Glasg.,F.R.C.S.E.: consultant orthopaedic surgeon,South Shields and Gateshead groups of hospitals.

KELHAM, B. H., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S.: consultant E.N.T. surgeon, Durhamand North West Durham groups of hospitals.

MAURICE, D. G., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S.: consultant plastic surgeon, regionalplastic-surgery service.

NARIMAN, SAM, M.B. Bombay, M.R.C.P.E. : assistant chest physician(S.H.M.O.), Sunderland group of hospitals.

WALTON, E. W., M.D.Durh.: consultant pathologist, North Tees-sidegroup of hospitals.

Welsh Regional Hospital Board:CATTELL, M. L., M.B., B.SC. Wales, D.OBST. : M.O.LEWIS, L. T., M.B., B.SC. Wales: deputy senior administrative M.O.PHILLIPS-MILES, DAVID, M.B., B.SC. Wales: assistant senior M.O.