E. Treacher Collins : obituary.

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[1932]
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    Reprinted from the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, December 24th, 1932 Obituarp E. TREACHER COLLINS, F.R.C.S. Consulting Surgeon, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital The death Mr. Treacher Collins, which took place on December l%th, has deprived the world of English ophthalmology of one of its principal leaders. Very early in his career he attained an established position, and in recent years he came to be regarded as the doyen of British ophthalmologists. Throughout his life a careful and skilful observer, he did much to establish the very high reputation of British ophthalmology in the scientific world. Edward Treacher Collins was the son of Dr. W. J. Collins, and on his mother’s side came of an old Huguenot stock. His elder brother, Sir William J. Collins, well known as an ophthalmic surgeon, and a former chairman of the London County Council and for some years a Liberal M.P., has served the country well in many public offices. Treacher Collins was educated at Universitv j College School, which in those days still occupied premises behind the present University College. He and Ernest Clarke, whose death was recorded only a few weeks ago, were at school together, though Clarke was by some years his senior. His medical education was gained at Middlesex Hospital, from which he qualified in 1883. He very soon turned his attention to ophthalmology, and from 1884 to 1887 he was house-surgeon at Moorfields. It was the work done in the following seven years, as curator and pathologist to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, which laid the foundations of his extensive and accurate knowledge of ophthalmology and established his .reputation as a scientific worker. His first paper in the Moorfields Hospital Reports appeared in 1887 on an- ophthalmos, and his contributions to the Ophthalmological Society’s Transactions began in a modest way in 1888. (He had been elected a member in 1885.) He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1890. The results of his ten years’ apprenticeship at Moorfields were summarized in the Hunterian Lectures which he gave [661/32]