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PROF. WILLIAM BLAIB-BELL, whose death on January 25 at the age of sixty-four years has been announced, held a high place among modern British physicians. He combined experimental methods of research with clinical observation, and did much to elucidate the control which the pituitary and other glands of internal secretion exert on the ovaries and uterus. He was gynaecologist and obstetrician to the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, and held the chair relating to those subjects in the University of Liverpool. In the later phase of his professional life, he sought to arrest the growth of malignant tumours by injection of a colloidal salt of lead into the veins of patients, but his results did not inspire others to adopt this mode of treatment. His best-known books are “The Sex Complex” (1916), “The Pituitary” (1919), “Some Aspects of the Cancer Problem” (1930), and “Principles of Gynaecology” (fourth edition, 1933). He received honorary degrees from the Universities of Glasgow and of Liverpool, and was elected an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
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[Obituary]. Nature 137, 264 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137264a0
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