In memoriam, Daniel John Leech, J.P., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.

  • Wild, Robert Briggs.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: In memoriam, Daniel John Leech, J.P., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    value of his services ; and on the death of Sir Richard Quain, it unhesitatingly chose him to succeed as Chairman. The completion of the Pharmacopoeia of 1898 did not end his labours. The empire at large had to be provided for as well as the United Kingdom, and Dr. Leech threw himself zealously into the work of preparing the Imperial Addendum for use in India and the Colonies. The enquiries, negotiations, and deliberations which this involved were numerous and novel. The difficulties were great, and the available means imperfect; but Dr. Leech’s perseverance and energy were indomitable, and he laid down the task only with his life, and when it was on the eve of accomplishment. He had the further satisfaction of opening friendly communications with the authorities of the United States, which give grounds for the hope that an assimilation of the British and the American Pharmacopoeias will ultimately be attained. The history of official pharmacy had great attraction for him, and his acquaintance with old formularies and dispensa- tories was wide and deep. He had made, with much pains, a collection of works of this kind, which included many rare and curious examples ; and this, almost as his last act, he made over to the Council as the nucleus of a Pharmacopceial Library of reference. A special book-plate has been engraved for the collection, which will always be associated with his name, and will preserve the memory of his accomplishments and his devotion. For those who may have to carry on the work from which he has been so untimely taken, nothing better can be wished than that they should follow the course he has traced, and emulate the example he has given. Donald Mac A lister. List of Dr. Leech’s Principal Published Writings. Chiefly compiled by Mrs. A. A. Kanthack, and chronologi- cally arranged by R. B. Wild. 1870. “Report on Seventy Cases of Epilepsy.” (With Mr. Dacre Fox, M.R.C.S.). Manchester Medical and Surgical Reports, 1870.