Editor,—The obituaries of three physicians, Ambrose King, Eric Dunlop, and David Oriel, appeared in quick succession in your columns.

By the time I started training in venereology, as it was then called (not a bad name incidentally because it means the science of the act of love which encompasses STIs, colposcopy, HIV disease, and sexual dysfunction) at the Whitechapel Clinic of the London Hospital in 1973 Ambrose King had already left. However, the clinic still sparkled …