, 1909-08-07

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Witnessed the sells crItioiug devotion to
duty evinced by DR.. Christian Branch and
his medical colleagues in their attendance
on these sufferers. His felIoWcountrymen
in st. Kits can realize, without having seen
them. his heroic efforts to alleviate the
distress Of the sufferers from that awful
cataclysm. They know, for they have
known him from boyhood, how regardless
he would be Of his own fatigue from over
work by night and day. Bat few perhaps
are aware that he was out in an open BOAT
at midnight, when the volcano was IN It's
most furious state of eruption, and advanced
as near to the SOufrlere as he could induce
the boatnen to 90, III the hope Of rescnlug
some stray f~ugityos. The EngIish-traIned
Matron of the Hospital, who arcely knew
hun then, for he had just gone 10 ~t.Nlucsnt.
recorded in al English magazine her at'u.-
ration Of his zeal in attending to the wounded-
This lady, who is now a Government paid
nurse in an African Colony was afterwards
one of those who moss appreciated han.
She, we know, viii not hear without tears
OF his death.
Dr. C. w Branch was a Fellow of the
Royal Institute OF Public Health, London
q Fellow OF the Society Of Tropical Medicine
and Hygiene, England and u Member OF
the Institute Of Hygiene, London. He held
from the London School Of Tropical Med-
icine their Certificate with First Glass
HonOurs.
His contribu lions to English Medical
Journals were numerous. The mention OF
three OF these viii illustrate the wide scope
Of his medical Investigations Notes en-
Jucinaria and other Iutestjpal Parasites IN
the West Iadies." Ibc Jo,uual n Iroptc-
al KedjcUle, let Septeubcr I915 che
Susceptibility OF Colonred People tsHypnot-
ism" The Joun7lal Of IrOpicni Tedici14e,
End .lpriI, I9D6; and "AmPutation Of the
Leg by a New Operation,' british Wed'c%S
o~oaa5aI, 9h lime, I906. HIS Monograph
on I4w7 was published as 81 separate pam
ph3et by Williams & Norgate at the expense
Of tie Liverpool School of TropicaIAleaiclne
His little booklet called "a Primer OF IropI-
cal Hygiene for use in Schools" was pub
lished ut the expense Of the St. Fiucout
Government.
But his range Of intellectual activity en-
bIaced a great variety Of subjects outside
of the pale Of medical science and the
practice OF the Medical Art. Without exug-
s|eraton, it would not have been easy to
find a scientific or literary topic which he
could not have discussed jnstructiyely even
among experts. Two OF his contributions
to uou-medical journals may be mentioned
bore rs illustrations :-"Notes on Callb I'm
PIGMENTS" published in pamphlet form by
the Smithsonian Institut on of Washington.
u. S. a.; and "A Study Of the Shakers in ST.
Vincent" which came out in Ihe Monist
OF Chicago, "a journal Of the highest repute for
the eruditjon Of its contributors
The writer of q beautiful and pathetic
tribute to the memory Of DR.. Christian $50
we in St. Kits always called hjm) which
appeared lately in our columns, tells how the
people, high and low, in his native place
hoped that ho would be stationed among
as again. All eve shall 80 to hun, but he
will not return to us"
The writer Of CDR. Branch, m Apprecia-
tiou,"in The Sentry OF St. Vincent is, we
believe, known to us but his account OF the
day spent in Dr.. Christians company at
Mustique well illustrates the almost encyelo-
paedjc character Of the Doctors knowledge.
We take the liberty Of expressing our sense
Of the merits Of his Appreciation but per-
hans he will pardon US for adding one little
explanatory note. 1t is true that Dir. Chris
tian was a lover Of "sport, . but the word in
his case did not include, as it usually does,
the idea of destroying, for mere amusement,