Excerpt from The Place of Climatology in Medicine: Being the Samuel Hyde Memorial Lectures; Read Before the Section of Balneology and Climatology of the Royal Society of Medicine, May 20th and 21st, 1913 My second duty - and privilege - is to call to your recollection him in whose honour these lectures have been named. Dr. Samuel Hyde was born at Stalybridge in Cheshire in 1849, and received his medical education at King's College, London. He settled at Buxton in 1877 as medical officer of the Peak Hydropathic and Thermal Establishment, and afterwards in private practice, acquiring the reputation of a skilful, observant physician, thoughtful and thorough, deeply imbued with the faith of fruitful experience in the efficacy of waters and climate in the treatment of disease. Literature on the subject was then limited, and his editings and writings added valuably to what was available. In 1889 he inaugurated a Journal of British and Foreign Health Resorts, and in 1895 he and Dr. Septimus Sunderland founded the British Balneological and Climatological Society, the parent of this section, thus providing for the first time a common meeting-ground for the medical observers at the various British health resorts, a notable service to the medicine of this country, and one we do well to specially commemorate. Hyde also became the editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Society. Dr. Fox, who knew him well, has described him as an indefatigable worker, patient and persistent, with the imagination to conceive and foresee, the constructive ability, courage, and perseverance to achieve, a personality of rare effectiveness and charm. When death claimed him at the early age of fifty his work was already complete - a British school of balneology and climatology had been created. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.