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gave longer perspectives, and how absolutely necessary these are in this day and age when materialism threatens to swamp us almost every day. Inspiration is a continual need. Dr. Weihs gave us this.

Finally our thanks to Dr. June Burger without whose work and charm this conference would never have been born nor succeeded. May we help her to bring about another next year and again in such beautiful surroundings.

Obituaries

IAN M C K I N L E Y B U R N S , M . B . E . , M.B.~ C H . B . , M . F . H O M .

On the l l t h of April Inn l~cKin|ey Burns, M.B.E., M.B., ch.B., M.F.HOm., of 73 Withington Road, Manchester, died unexpectedly in hospital. During his visiting round on March 23rd he had sustained a coronary thrombosis, and was admit ted to the Intensive Care Ward in the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He appeared to be making satisfactory progress, and his death nearly three weeks later came as a great shock to his family and friends. He is survived by his wife and his son, Dr. G. A. Burns, who was in partnership with his father and is now carrying on the practice and Clinic in the City.

Dr. Burns was born in 1914. He qualified at Glasgow University in 1936 and, during the following year, studied Homceopathy in the Glasgow School under Dr. Henderson Patrick. In 1937 he joined my practice in St. Annes-on- Sea, Lancashire, as Assistant with a view to Partnership. In 1939, however, he was offered the post of chief physician to the new Oxford Road Clinic and also the practice of the lately deceased homceopath Dr. Reginald Jones. In the War he served as Medical Officer with the Forces in North Africa and the Middle East. On his own initiative he organized and ran the very first camp for the refugees who were fleeing in hordes to the West. For this latter service he was honoured with the M.B.E. He served also at Sicily and at Anzio.

Inn was a very efficient doctor and a highly skilled homceopath. He was a volatile person with boundless energy and dr ive--everything he did appeared to be done at the double! At St. Annes he soon became exceptionally popular in the practice and greatly endeared himself to me and my family, so that, when the time came for him to leave us we were all very sad at the parting of our ways. Later events, however, showed that the Clinic offered him far greater opportunities for furthering the cause of Homceopathy; for, apar t from the Insti tution growing and thriving under his leadership, it was his own resolute and courageous pertinacity tha t saved the situation in 1968. In tha t year the Town took over the site and, later, demolished the building to make way for Univers i ty extension. Inn, determined to maintain continuous service, de- manded and obtained temporary accommodation from the University. That hurdle surmounted, he then opposed the City Fathers ' repeated demands that

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he must accept a cash settlement by way of compensation. Ian stuck to his guns and insisted that the building be replaced, and, when the authorities remained adamant , he took his case to the Lands Tribunal who found in his favour with full costs! As a consequence the Manchester Clinic is now the finest and most up-to-date homceopathic Insti tution in the country.

The loss of Dr. Burns at so early an age brought a deep sense of dismay to the Faculty of Homceopathy. At its April meeting his loss was deplored by Dr. Duncan C. Russell and myself, both of us paying high tribute to his fine qualities. Through the President a message of sympathy has been sent to his bereaved family.

G . R . M .

W I L L I A M W. Y O U N G , M . D .

We very much regret to announce the death of Dr. William W. Young, one of the most active homceopathic physicians in the USA. Below, we are reprinting one of the obituaries from the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, 67, 67 (June 1974).

Homeotherapeutics---a word so new i t is found in NO modern dictionary, and yet so descriptive of the scientific application of an unique philosophy of health maintenance, that owes its origin to a great scholar who has been taken from our ranks before he had an opportunity to accomplish his vision of a unified and vigorously functioning P P P plan for the modernization and scientific verification of the Similia concept which had its practical inception with Dr. Samuel Hahnemann almost two centuries ago.

The Perpetuation and Propagation Program initiated by Doctor Young consisted of establishing an effective business organization to provide the funds and activities for the oldest national medical organization in the United States to put its fiscal affairs in order; conserving its funds, and developing a program of activities which would accomplish the objectives of the P P P . He continually emphasized the failure of homeopathic physicians to conduct research, to teach their colleagues, and to write scientific papers. This enthusiastic advocate of Homcotherapeutics often chastized his colleagues for their neglect of essentials s o frequently, tha t he became known fondly as the "Stormy Petrel" as he a t tempted to arouse them from complacency by stressing the need for obtaining the services of academicians and research authorities and authors of stature to seek and publish relevant and pertinent information.

He took the lead by writing innumerable articles and scientific p a p e r s explaining the concepts of Homeotherapeutics. As Chairman of the American Academy of Homeotherapeuties of the American Insti tute of Homeopathy, he has written two books which are soon to be published. The first is An Intro- duction to Homeotherapeutics in which he collaborated with Dr. Allen Neiswander.

Dr. Young broke with tradition, and thus offended many of his colleagues whose training and philosophy of practice is still based irrevocably on the principles of Homeopathy as originally promulgated by Dr. Hahnemann. Bill believed, with documented evidence and his own logical reasoning, that Dr. Hahnemann was a scholar of such ability and inquisitiveness tha t he would long ago have adopted the use of every available method of obtaining informa- tion related to the physiological, biochemical and pathological changes which might have occurred in his patient and would have made use of the most