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WE record with much regret the death of DR. W. IRONSIDE BRUCE on March 21 at the early age of forty-four. Dr. Bruce was educated at the University of Aberdeen, obtaining the degrees of M.B. and Ch.B. in 1900, and then served as civil surgeon in the South African Field Force. Here he took much interest in the application of X-rays for the diagnosis of war injuries, and afterwards became assistant to the late Sir J. Mackenzie Davidson at Charing Cross Hospital, and on the death of the latter succeeded as medical officer in charge of the X-ray department. Dr. Bruce was intensely interested in the scientific developments of his subject, of which he acquired a very complete knowledge. He published "A System of Radiography with Atlas of the Normal,"and in process of time became president of the section of radiology, Royal Society of Medicine, and took a considerable share in the establishment of the diploma in radiology, now given by the University of Cambridge. Some months ago the condition of his health gave rise to anxiety, and it was later found that he was suffering from a severe type of aplastic anaemia, from which he died. Evidence has accumulated that this condition may be caused by the more penetrating radiations both from X-ray tubes and from radium, and there is little doubt that he succumbed as a result of his continuous work in radiology-another X-ray worker who may be described as a martyr to his science.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 148 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107148a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107148a0