Louis Stromeyer Little, Eng, a0. Viet we. Land, surgeon to the Shanghai General Hospital; formerly surgeon to the London His nomerons fri and China will learn with deep regret of the death of Louis 8. Little which took place at Whitebill, Bletcbingley on October 4. _Althongh he greeter part of bie professional li in Chico, there are still rex who will remember the pit he was appointed Assistant Bargeoo at the aouvcaly any age of twenty-one years, was born on November 23, 1840.
ird von of Dr. W. J. Little, to the London Hospital, one of the pioneers of modern methods of orthopardic surgery in England, At the early age of seven years be went to School and continued there fourteen years old, when be was of to Germany to continue his atodies Hanover and Kiel. It is said that tthe German scholastic authorities wore profoundly impressed with his extensive knowledge of Greek snd Latin, they were ¢qually ea with his ignorance of mathematics arithmetic, Such was and bent, indeed, that th stady of the suabled him to take Afterwards, when he studied tice under de Morgan at No College, be proved that ignorance of that science was dae to defects in the Panlice teaching, and not to any incapacity on the part of the popu, In 1860 be became B. a. Land, portion of arveled. popu of the Hoyel College of Sargeocr, Thomas Blizard Carling, ¥.R.8, bolag his master. Havirg entered at the London Hospital he took the diploma of one in 1862 and that of r.ncs. in 1866.
To the same year that be took the Sargecn to the hospital, at the early age of twenty-one.
His work soon showed that the booour was not ande As an operator he w:
1 in design, whilst te was cool, rapid, neat and resonrcefal in performance, In 1864, from Febrosry till May, he was with the troops in Schleswig daring the Schlesmig-Holstein cam-paige. After the storming of Dappel with 2,000 Davish, Austrian and Prassian wounded, he had hard and ardaoue operative and other work.
In 1866 be worked in the cholera epidemic in the Enst of London and was one of the pioneers of the treatment ci that complaint by me of saline infusion into the veinr, In 1869 he war appointed all Sargecn to
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