Memoir - E. Wyllys Andrews / [E. Wyllys Andrews].

  • Andrews, E. Wyllys (Edward Wyllys)
Date:
1927
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    Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS, March, 1927, pages 418-419 ROY MOODIE COLLECTION. MEMOIR-E. WYLLYS ANDREWS 1856-1927 IT is with profound regret that Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics announces the death of E. Wyllys Andrews, one of the founders of this journal and one of its editors from its inception. His kindly, sympathetic interest and never failing response to demands upon his time in the interests of the journal have been of inestimable value. The loss of Dr. Andrews is especially felt since his death is the third break in our ranks in the past year. The loyalty and support of these men has been one of the outstanding factors in the develop¬ ment of the journal. Dr. L. L. McArthur, for many years a personal friend and hospital associate of Dr. Andrews, and Dr. Kellogg Speed, at one time an assistant for many years, present short memorials of our distinguished co-worker. SOMEONE has said, “To know a nian, one must winter and summer with him.’’ In this instance, I have done just that for 40 years, and yet I do not feel that I knew Dr. Andrews intimately. Years ago, it was my privilege to urge Dr. Wyllys Andrews’ appointment as my colleague on the surgical staff of Michael Reese Hospital. Never, in all those years, was there ever an unkind word, act, or look between us, nor the slightest friction. Here then is the outstanding picture of his character: the total lack of all quarrelsome¬ ness, opposition, and almost too much of the “turn the other cheek” tendency to please his unregenerate confreres. Never have I known him to say an unkind thing of one of his associates, no matter what the provocation: if he could not praise, he said nothing. So modest, retiring, quiet a comrade that one little suspected the wealth of learning or the broadness of vision until some occasion invited his expression of opinion, when the most enlightening portrayal of the situation under consideration and the practical simple plan for its control revealed it. Like his father, he loved to spend his vacations in the wilds but little fre¬ quented by men, busying himself more with the study of geology, the flora and fauna of the spot, than bagging big game. Thus, annually he made trips into the wilds of Canada, the Georgian Bay, or the small islands of the Carribbean, abso¬ lutely happy behind a bellying sail, a beam wind, and a following sea.