Dr Carey Coombs and his non-existent cardiac infarct

Dr. Carey Franklin Coombs

We have to record with the deepest regret the death of Dr. Carey Coombs. He passed away in the General Hospital on 9th December, after an illness of some five weeks' duration. It will be remembered that he was taken ill suddenly in the street at the beginning of November. Though he appeared to make favourable progress, it was realized by those in attendance that his condition was very grave and...

Carey Franklin Coombs 1879–1932

Carey Coombs was only 53 when he died in 1932. In the preceding 20 years he had won world-wide acclaim for his research and writings on rheumatic heart disease and had established himself amongst the best-known physicians in the provinces. In this he carried on a long tradition of famous Bristol medical men. He was universally liked and admired and would be more frequently quoted today had it n...

The Carey Coombs Memorial Lecture on the Pathology and Surgical Treatment of Cardiac Ischæmia

Non-existent authors.

Authorship of bioscientific papers is a serious business. Most journals have policies that encourage transparency, making it clear who did what, but some authors take it less seriously than editors might like, and indexers don’t always get it right. Searching for common abbreviations (⇓) in PubMed (1809–2017), Embase (1974–2017), Ovid Medline (1946–2017), Philosopher’s Index (1966–2016), and Ps...

The Second Carey Coombs Memorial Lecture. "The Radiology of Rheumatic Heart Disease"

The lecturer opened with a tribute to the work of Dr. Carey Coombs on the aetiology of rheumatic heart disease. He pointed out that development of X-ray investigation of the heart had been extended by the introduction of angeiocardiography : that is, injection into a vein of a substance opaque to X-rays followed immediately by taking X-ray films of the heart. Angeiocardiography has clarified ou...