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ObituaryRAYMOND GREENE

D.M. Oxon., F.R.C.P.

Dr Greene, who died on Dec. 6 aged 81, was distinguishedfor his study of thyroid diseases and for his feats as a

mountaineer.

He was the elder brother of Grahame Greene, the novelist, and ofSir Hugh Greene, the former

director-general of the B.B.C. Hisfather was Charles Henry Greene,headmaster of BerkhamstedSchool. He was educated at Berk-

hamsted, Pembroke College,Oxford, and Westminster Hospital.His chief hospital appointmentswere at the Metropolitan Hospital,the Royal Northern Hospital, theRoyal Free Hospital, and New EndHospital. He served as chairman ofthe Fourth International GoitreConference in 1965, and as vice-president of the Fifth International

Thyroid Conference in 1965, and as vice-president of the EuropeanThyroid Association in 1966. He was also president of the ThyroidClub. Another of his particular interests was migraine, a neglectedsubject at the time.In later life he took to publishing and became a very successful

chairman of Heinemann Medical Books.He was a famous mountaineer. In 1931 he went as medical officer

and a full climbing member of an expedition to Kamet. With fourothers he attained the summit, the highest ever reached at the time.He was senior medical officer of the Everest expedition of 1933.

In 1934 he married Eleanor Craven, daughter of HamiltonGamble, of St Louis, U.S.A. They had a son and a daughter.A. S. M. writes:

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"Raymond Greene was one of that small band of physicians whomade endocrinology a respectable and respected specialty in thiscountry. With his background of general practice and his extensivespecialised knowledge of the thyroid he was wont to say that the onlygeneral physician was the endocrinologist. At New End Hospital hedeveloped the thyroid clinic into a centre of international repute.There, in a great medicosurgical partnership with Jack Piercey, heattracted a mass of patients with every sort of thyroid disease and asteady flow of expert visitors. It was a pleasure to be part of that unit,which was efficient, productive, and happy. Obtaining finance andfacilities for the unit involved Greene in hours of committee workwhich he cheerfully dismissed as ’log rolling’. His colleagues sawhim at his relaxed best over a pint at the local pub. He would lead theconversation over a dazzling variety of subjects with a wealth ofanecdote and a wit that was always polished if sometimes mordant."By temperament and physique Greene was an imposing

character. That elegant tall figure had great physical strength,shown in his many achievements as a climber and, later, when hewas seen to lift a small car from its parking place outside New EndHospital. His air of succeeding without really trying belied a rigiddiscipline of hard work. When he endured a most painful treatmentof carcinoma of pharynx with stoic courage he only took pride in thefact that he continued his work throughout that time. He had a greatlove of the English language and used the spoken and written wordwith consummate artistry. His quality as a writer was well shown inhis autobiography and was of great value in his long association withHeinemann Medical Books.

"For those who worked closely with Raymond Greene there willbe an abiding memory of unobtrusive support and a quiet steadfastloyalty which he gave without question."

A memorial service will be held at All Souls, Langham Place,London W on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 12 noon.

STUART WILLIAM HINDSM.D. Lond., M.R.C.P.

Dr Hinds, formerly reader in public health at the LondonSchool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, died on Nov. 20aged 67.He was born in what was then Northern Rhodesia. He was

educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and Guy’s Hospital,London. After qualifying in 1939, he entered the R.A.F. and servedin North Africa. On his return, he went to the Hammersmith

Hospital and then to Bristol as lecturer in child health. He had agreat interest in preventive medicine, which led to his appointmentas reader in public health at the London School of Hygiene andTropical Medicine. He much enjoyed his work there amongstoverseas postgraduate students and he often entertained them in hisown home. At the Harvey Tercentenary celebrations in 1957 hegave a lecture on the portraits of William Harvey and played aleading part in the transfer of William Harvey’s M.D. diploma ofthe University of Padua from King’s School, Canterbury, to theRoyal College of Physicians of London.

In 1960 he was seconded to the World Health Organisation andprepared a report on conditions and health services for EasternTurkey. Becoming friendly with many of his Turkish colleagues, hefounded with them the Anglo-Turkish Medical Club. In 1966Hinds went to the U.S.A. as associate professor of child health in theUniversity of Michigan and then associate professor of publichealth in the University of Texas. While holding this latter post hewrote on The Relation of Medical Triage to World Famine, adiscussion which attracted much public attention.

Stuart Hinds was at heart a clinician and always had in mind thepatient and the patient’$interest, so that excessive committee workand bureaucracy had little appeal for him. He believed the

developing countries’ priority health need lay in good sanitarysystems, clean water, and adequate diet. Some of these countries heknew from his own experiences in childhood and from extensivetravel.He will be remembered with affection by a large number of

postgraduate students in many parts of the world. He is survived byhis wife, Betty, his son, and two daughters.

R. T. C.

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F. E. J.

A memorial service for the late Prof. L. J WITTS will be held at StGiles’ Church, Oxford, on Saturday, Jan. 22, at 11.30 A.M.

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