Obituary

D U N C A N M A C G I L L I V R A Y C A M E R O N M . B . , C H . B . , M.F . I t O M . F . R . C . G . P .

Duncan Cameron, who died on 12 September, aged 73, became interested in Homoeopathy in the early 1930s while in practice in Glasgow. At that time Dr. Henderson Patrick held small study groups for interested allopaths in his consulting rooms, where he explained the theories of Homceopathy and advised on reading. Duncan was also able to visit the Glasgow Homceopathic Hospital. On moving to practice in Bristol, he got in touch with the doctors at the Bristol Homoeopathic Hospital and in 1939 was appointed to the staff as a GP/Specialist, where he worked till about the middle sixties, in charge of beds and also of a weekly outpatient session. He became a member of the British Homceopathie Society in 1934 and served on the Council of the Faculty of Homceopathy from 1948-1953. He represented the staff of the Bristol Homceopatbic Hospital on the Medical Committee of the Bristol United Hospitals from ] 965 until he retired from hospital work.

Duncan was born in Glasgow where his father was a minister. He was educated at Hillhead High School, and qualified M.B., Ch.B. at Glasgow in 1924. After a trip round the world as a ship's surgeon, he practiced in Glasgow for about ten years and then moved to a practice in South Bristol where he was in active practice until two months before his death.

Though nearly forty, he volunteered for service with the R.A.M.C. in ]939; the field hospital in which he was serving escaped through Boulogne at the time of Dunkirk, and later he served in Egypt and the Sudan until the end of the war.

He was a Founder Member of the College of General Practitioners and a moving spirit in the founding of the South Western Faculty; he was the first Secretary of the Faculty and held that office until he was appointed Provost (1964-66). Later he was made an Honorary Fellow of the College.

He was also an active member of the British Medical Association, and Chairman of the Bristol Division in 1939.

A large congregation of colleagues, friends and patients at the funeral service in the Cburch where he had been an Elder, showed the appreciation with which be was regarded.

As a physician, he was a keen diagnostician and a sound prescriber; as a committee man, a tower of strength; his wide knowledge of men and affairs was enhanced by a pawky sense of humour which did much to lighten the burdens of official business.

He is survived by his older brother William, also a doctor and a member of the Faculty, and by his wife and three daughters.

F . B .