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physiotherapist accompanied him at his clinics, enabling himto make quickly implemented decisions on treatment of pa­tients made ready for examination by staff trained in his ways.He expected the same intensity of purpose from all and couldbe very frank if this was not forthcoming.

He was clear and decisive in thought and speech and was anexcellent and formidable witness in court. Right up to a shorttime before his death he was actively engaged in medico-legalwork.

He is survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter.H.B.Y.

JOHN POLLACK PHILPM.B.Edin., F.R.C.S.E.

Mr John (Ian) Philp, formerly senior surgeon toWarrington General Hospital, died on Sept. 21 at hishome in Powmill, Scotland, at the age of 64.

He graduated M.B. from Edinburgh Medical School in 1933.As a young man he held resident posts at the Stirling RoyalInfirmary and also in Birmingham, but he returned to Edin­burgh as demonstrator in anatomy, and became F.R.C.S.E. in1938. He was appointed resident surgical officer at AncoatsHospital, Manchester, and later honorary assistant surgeon toAncoats Hospital and also honorary surgeon to the Duchess ofYork and Booth Hall Children's Hospitals in Manchester.While at Ancoats Hospital he met Dr Jane MacKintosh, alsoresident at the hospital, who became his wife. During the war,part of his time was spent working very hard as R.S.O. atAncoats Hospital at the time of the heavy air raids on Man­chester; for the remainder of the war he was in the R.A.M.C.and spent some time in India and the Far East.

Early in 1949 he was appointed consultant surgeon to Warr­ington General Hospital and Newton-Ie-Willows Hospital,where he worked until illness forced his retirement in 1973.For most of that time he dominated the surgical scene in Warr­ington and the district.

Ian Philp was a superb and gentle operative surgeon and afine clinician, the sort of man to whom you would entrust yournearest and dearest without question. He was a strong anddominant character but kind and understanding, with highstandards and strong principles. He was for many years apowerful member of the hospital management committee, put­ting in untold hours of hard work on behalf of the hospital,the patients, and his medical colleagues. The people of Warr­ington and its district can be grateful for the privilege of hav­ing had such a fine Scot on loan in their midst for 25 years.

He leaves a widow, who is a consultant aneesthetist, twosons, and a daughter, who is also a doctor.

D.M.F.

JAMES Wll.LIAM PEARCEM.D., C.M. Queen's, D.Phii.Oxon.

Dr J. W. Pearce, professor of physiology in the Uni­versity of Toronto Medical School, died on July 10,1975.

He was born in Northern Alberta in 1924 and qualifiedM.D., C.M. from Queen's University in 1947. After a shortperiod in clinical medicine he went to Magdalen College, Ox­ford, where he obtained a D.l'HIL. in physiology. On his returnto Canada he spent three years from 1952 to 1955, in thedepartment of physiology at the University of WesternOntario, from which he went to the University of Alberta tobecome professor and head of the department of physiologyand pharmacology-a position he held until 1967 when hebecame professor of physiology at the University of Toronto.In 1965-66 he spent a year as a visiting scientist at the A.R.C.Institute of Animal Physiology at Babraham. His early in­terests in research focused on the neurophysiology of cardio­vascular reflexes, and later he became involved in the control

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of sodium and water output by the kidney after blood-volumeexpansion. Professor Pearce was very active in scientific affairsat the national level as a member of committees of the MedicalResearch Council, Defense Research Board, Canadian Federa­tion of Biological Sciences, Biological Council, and Council onScience and Technology (SCITEC). He was a member of thePhysiological Society, American Physiological Society, andCanadian Physiological Society of which he became Presidentin 1968-1969. Professor Pearce will long be remembered byhis students and colleagues for the high standards he set in allof his varied activities and for his warm personality.

F.R.C.

PETER MAYNARD SENDER

Ph.D. Lond., M.B.W'srand

Dr Peter Sender, scientific officer in the department ofhuman nutrition at the London School of Hygiene andTropical Medicine, died on Oct. 5 at the age of 34.

After graduating M.B. at the University of Witwatersrand,he moved to England and became a registrar in chemical path­ology at the Hammersmith Hospital. From there he moved to­wards the basic sciences, taking first an M.SC. in biochemistryat University College, and then a l'H.D. under Sir Ernst Chainat Imperial College. After this thorough grounding he wasexceptionally well fitted for work in experimental medicine,and the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Unit at the Hospi­tal for Tropical Diseases was fortunate to secure him as amember of the staff there in 1971.

Sender's work at Imperial College had been on the metabo­lism of the perfused heart, and while continung some labora­tory research he devoted himself increasingly to investigationson patients. He began by studying protein turnover in normaland obese subjects, and showed that a reduction in food intakeproduced a large fall in protein turnover-an adaptive re­sponse which is of much practical and theoretical interest. Inthe last two years he had become increasingly interested in themetabolic response to injury, and at the time of his death wasstudying protein turnover in patients with severe burns ortrauma. Earlier this year he was appointed honorary lecturerin surgical metabolism at University College Hospital MedicalSchool.

Peter Sender had great gifts; he was a born research-worker,and made a most important personal and intellectual contribu­tion to our small team. While he saw his own role primarilyas a scientist, he was in fact an excellent doctor, and vervmuch liked by patients. Colleagues, friends, patients, and stu­dents will remember not only his ability, but also his kindnessand generosity.

J.C.W.

MARK BURKEM.R.C.S.

Dr Mark Burke died in Birmingham on Sept. 12,aged 74.

Coming to this country at the age of 4 from what is nowPoland, he was educated in London and he subsequently quali­fied as a psychoanalyst. Following war service in the MiddleEast as major, R.A.M.C., he returned to London, and early inthe post-war years, having fluency in several languages, hegrasped the opportunity to teach psychoanalysis in Brazil. Inthe mid-1950s he was again in London where, as a therapist,he was at his best, and in 1968 he obtained a special concessionto practise at Sacramento; California. An orthodox Freudian,he was punctilious of detail, and the accurate concentrationwith which he applied his art was rewarded by a satisfyinglevel of achievement.

D.T.M.