Samuel Hyde Memorial Lecture

Abstract

was born at Stalybridge 101 years ago, was privately educated and afterwards entered King's College, London, in 1872. In 1875 he received the certificate of honour in obstetric medicine and in 1877 qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. As a student, he took an active part in mission work and was attached to St. Giles's Medical Mission. He was to retain the missionary spirit throughout his life. In 1877 he settled at Buxton and devoted the rest of his all-too-short life to pioneering efforts for the advancement of that branch of physical medicine known as "balneology and climatology". He became editor of the Journal of British and Foreign Health Resorts, he founded the British Balneological and Climatological Society, which was incorporated with the Royal Society of Medicine in 1900, and later was merged with this Section of Physical Medicine. He was also editor of the Journal of the Balneological and Climatological Society.