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DR. WALLACE BEATTY
Author(s) -
Smith Walter G.
Publication year - 1923
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1923.tb09079.x
Subject(s) - courage , affection , sense of humor , honesty , conscience , nobility , medicine , classics , psychoanalysis , psychology , history , art , philosophy , law , theology , politics , social psychology , epistemology , political science
DERMATOLOGY has suffered a real loss in the death of Dr. Wallace Beatty, which occurred on November 8th. For some years he was on the Editorial Staff of this Journal, and made several interesting and valuable contributions. He was also an active member for over thirty years of the Dublin Biological Club, to which he brought forward many dermatological cases, some of rarity, illustrated by beautiful histological slides. Dr. Beatty had troops of friends and was esteemed and loved by all who knew him, for the tendrils of affection cling more closely to nobility of character than to special accomplishments. He ŵ as a man of transparent honesty and goodness of heart, ever unmindful of self, and generous in his estimation of others. The writer of this article was his intimate friend for fiftv years, and never knew any man who was so rich in that charity wliich " thinketh no evil." He had a hyperaesthetic conscience, and was unselfishly liberal to his poorer patients, even to his own detriment. From his brilliant student days to the close of his active life his motto was—" Whatsoever thy hand flndeth to do, do it with thy might." In addition to the crippling infirmity of increasing deafness, he bravely bore a long and trying illness with the calm cheerfulness and courage the fruit of a blameless life. The Board of Trinity College, Dublin, recognised his worth a few years ago by creating for him the post of Hon. Professor of Dermatology, a distinction which he highly ap^^reciated.