MARTYRS TO SCIENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3414, 19 February 1920, Page 2

MARTYRS TO SCIENCE.

_.._v_._.. 1 SEI.I“—SACRIFICE IN C.»\L.'Sl~2 I" OF I)U'l‘Y. ‘i The .\lid(llesex Itaspniii, which : making a special appeal for .t-$200,000 i Luses its c'.';liln not only on its o;'¢lin:ll'y I in,l)Culs, o.ml_i'«.< care of .lO,U()U \vounu§t‘(l'Sol(llol'S, but on its scientific re‘seaecli. A meinber of the scientiiic 1 st-. 111", Dl‘. Cecil Lyster, is now lying in ,3. critical condition consequent on his i.<elf-saexilice in the Cause of‘duty. For "years he has been in charge of the selectl'i(: tlierapeutic depurtxnent, and [now .<ufi'ers as others have Suifered El)efol'e him from his ardent stucly of ' X-rays and their application. Disease ‘''and (langer of worse could not per;sua<le him to klisconfinue his work_, .ro which he stuck until prostrated. .~\no‘rher %nlu.l-‘ryr :to science is weEealled by the publication of Mr Ste lphen 1-’a.g'et’s “Life of Sir Victor 3 Horsley.” The most brilliant suri_qcon of his day and generation. Sir l ‘Jietor perished from his zeal in try- ‘ ing to .inlp!‘o\'n the lot of our sick and

;-;nlxmiv«’l sol<'licr.< in I\[csopotanlia. He lios in {L soldim"s ;I'r:n.-co, and "no snld~ icr has more nolfiy won H 121: hm1()11l'ab]0 rest. Sir Victor (‘ll‘;(.'n.‘d the full stud)’ of nwdi(-inc in 1875 at University (‘.Ol- - thvn the on.l_\' m.‘o(lical school’ In London, and pol'ha:ps in the Whole <*mmtl‘y, \\=hi(:h brought its pupils into diroct I'<)ueh with the latest and best medical discoveries. At 28 he was recognised in -the hosuk.-i‘::11s of Europe and Anleric*.-1 as :1 leader of medical pl‘ogross. Ho was only 59 wllon he died on ‘rho banks of HlO Tigris.