Dr. Marsh's Eulogy of Retiring Senior In farewell to Dr. R. J. Marshall the' members of the British Medical profession in Shanghai gave a dinner at the Shanghai Club on Friday evening in his honour. Dr. Marshall is returning {0 retirement at home after 35. years in Shanghai, during Which time he has become so much part of local life, not only in the medical profession but also in practi cally every other side of Shanghai's varied and cosmopolitan activities, that he will be greatly missed by all those who have been privileged to know him.
At the dinner on Friday, to which medical men of other nationalities were also invited, Dr. Marsh, who presided, said in his speech in part:—
When an occasion comes to say farewell to a senior and eminent member of our profession we naturally expect to be confronted by a bald pate, of at least grey hairs, but even those of ut with acute vision cannot but fail to get any Inspiration from evidence of ageing in the case of our distinguished guest of the evening.
This in itself calls for our congratulations. We all hope he will Jong retain his youthful looks, and that any sadness in breaking away from friends and associ soon be displaced bj and relief at having have known Marshall longer and more intimately—than anyone here to-night, T find the ending a life-long association.is emotional experience difficult to suppress. We were students together: at the same college, at a time when there were many talents and strong. urgings working on the medicine of our day to do away with all that was harmful and inept in treatment We were fortunate in our Alma Mater.
Our teachers were of the generation succeeding Lister, whose "gio ous gospel of discontent" with old Practices made him perfect, in our College Hospital, the safety of operative surgery for all time.
Tu medicine we were taught to judge and cure diseases not names but by the signs and symptoms: of each individual patient.
We were taught the all importance of vital resistance to disease; that stimulating and sustaining the resistance of the patient to disease was the art of medicine.
The Aight for purity and simplicity in medicine Is very little older than our student days.
As a surgeon Marshall is distin guished as a careful and expert operator, cool, wary, and particularly successful in ruptures and bladder stone.
There is no keener microscopist than Marshall. He made a special microscopic study of the parasites of malaria. He was the first to discover that when you place water ear blood cells containing malaria crescents they flagellate at once.
A paper written by him in collaporation with Dr. Thin on "Malaria Fevers" was read before the Royal
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