In memoriam, Daniel John Leech, J.P., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.

  • Wild, Robert Briggs.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: In memoriam, Daniel John Leech, J.P., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 newly founded ; he had for his colleagues Dr. David Little and the late Dr. Ritchie, and to the energy and ability of its medical officers is largely due the successful establishment of that useful institution. In 1873 he was appointed Honorary Assistant Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and threw himself into clinical teaching with his accustomed ardour and thoroughness. In 1875 he was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and was elected a Fellow in 1882. In 1876 he took the degree of M D. of the London University. In 1878, on the death of Dr. Eason Wilkinson, he became Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and held the appointment for 21 years, until July, 1899, when he resigned, and was appointed Consulting Physician. Dr. Leech was always interested in diseases of the skin, and in addition to his other duties voluntarily organised a Dermatological Clinic at the Royal Infirmary. This he continued until the estab- lishment of the Manchester and Salford Hospital for Skin Diseases in 1885, in which he took an active share, and was appointed Honorary Consulting Physician. In the growth and develop- ment of the Skin Hospital he took a keen interest, and was a generous contributor to its funds. One of his last public appearances was at the annual meeting of the Hospital in February. When the Whitworth trustees presented the Stanley Grove estate to the Owens College for Hospital purposes, Dr. Leech was one of the earliest subscribers towards the foundation of the Cancer Hospital in 1892 ; he was one of the first Honorary Physicians to that Institution, and Chairman of the Medical Board up to his death. To his constant help and interest in the work of the hospital is due much of the success which has attended its work during the past eight years. Dr. Leech was also Consulting Physician to the Deaf and Dumb Institute, in Old Trafford. In the year 1876, Dr. Leech was offered and accepted the co-Lectureship of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Owens College. On the death of Mr. Somers he became sole lecturer, and in 1881 he was appointed the first Professor