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THE death on May 28 of Sir James Cantlie, at the age of seventy-five years, removes from our midst a man of originality and untiring energy, and a ready writer and speaker. In his early days he was demonstrator of anatomy and assistant surgeon and later surgeon to the Charing Cross Hospital, but most of his life work outside his practice, whether in London, Hongkong, or again in London, was devoted to teaching and pioneering in unexplored fields of medical education. A great believer in physical training and fresh air both for the young and the middle-aged for the maintenance of health, he first set out some of his views in 1885 in a remarkable paper entitled “The Degeneration of Londoners,” which encountered a good deal of ridicule, but was remembered during the War when a large number of recruits for the army were placed in Class C.
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Sir James Cantlie, K.B.E. Nature 117, 832 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117832a0
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