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DR. SAMUEL HATCH WEST, who died on March 2 at the age of seventy-one, was well known in London as a consulting physician. He was trained at Oxford under Rolleston and Acland, and as Radcliffe travelling fellow he studied in Vienna and Berlin. He was physician to the Royal Free Hospital and to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, but his life's work was carried out at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he received his medical education, and held successive medical appointments until he became full physician. Dr. West was a successful clinical teacher, and many generations of students will be grateful to him for the thorough manner in which he taught them to examine a patient, system by system, so that no important organ could be overlooked. Dr. West deserved his high reputation as a careful clinical observer. Diseases of the lungs were his particular study, and on this subject he produced a monograph in two volumes which is a monument of industry and a veritable mine of information. He delivered the Lettsomian lectures at the Medical Society of London in 1900, taking as his subject “Granular Kidney,” but it is by his teaching and his work on diseases of the lungs that he will best be remembered.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 50 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105050b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105050b0