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Biographie du
Dr William
Aubrey Layard Marriott
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Docteur William Aubrey Layard Marriott
(1886–1967)
Dans une autre partie du dossier
Biographie, j’ai raconté l’histoire du dernier élève de
Kent.
En voici, en anglais, la vie écrite et
racontée par mon Ami, le Docteur Noël
Pratt,
dans le BHJ (56 (1967), page 188.
Merci au Dr Klaus Henning
Gypser, de Glees (Allemagne) de m’avoir communiqué cet
article
Dr R. S. (jeudi 4 janvier
2001
We record with sorrow the death of William
Aubrey Layard
Marriott at his home in Norwich on 25 April 1967, at the age of 81.
He qualified at
Glasgow in 1908, and was appointed House Surgeon at the (then)
London Homoeopathic Hospital, being contemporary with Sir John Weir.
He was awarded a Sir Henry
Tyler Scholarship and in 1909 went to Chicago for five months to
study under Dr. James Tyler Kent.
On his return he entered general practice
in
Norwich with Dr. E. B. Roche, working mainly at the Norwich Homoeopathic
Dispensary.
During the first world war he served in the
R.A.M.C. in
Salonika and elsewhere for three
years.
On his return to
Norwich he was a founder member of the Norfolk branch of the British Red Cross Society, was their first medical
officer and served the Branch in many ways for over forty years.
In his early years it was a struggle to
gain the respect and confidence and co-operation of consultants because of
his practice of Homeopathy, but he did succeed, and held various offices
in his time, being President of the Norwich Division of the B.M.A.,
President of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico Chirurgical Society, organizer
of the Norfolk and Norwich Ambulance Services, and for 25 years he was
Secretary of the Norwich Panel Committee.
All this was in addition to his work in
general practice, in which he successfully maintained the rightful place
of Homoeopathy in the face of the advance of modern medicine.
During the second world war he worked
exceptionally hard at home in connection with A.R.P. and Medical Boards.
He continued in practice until the age of
seventy, then retired by stages from his other activities, enjoying quite
good health until his last three years.
As far as the writer can discover, he
published only one paper, that entitled “Forty Years’ Experience of
Homoeopathy in General Practice in the Provinces”, which he read to
the Faculty on 10 April 1958.
Looking through it again, I am interested
to note how accurate an impression it gives of his personality and his
sense of humour, and his capacity for good hard work.
He did not often attend the meetings of the
Faculty, so will not be remembered by many of the members.
But in Norwich he is sadly missed, and will
he remembered for his life of service as a Christian physician, especially
by the many patients who under his care benefited from Homoeopathy.
N. J. P. ( Dr N. J.
Pratt.)
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