Sir Morell Mackenzie

Sir James Mackenzie

Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...

Morell Mackenzie: The Story of a Victorian Tragedy

Sir James Mackenzie and Cellular Pathology.

MANY practitioners who graduated before 1925 can recall the great prestige which the name ofJames Mackenzie enjoyed; and they may be surprised to find that more than I00 years have passed since his birth. It is just fifty years since his sudden rise to fame in British medicine-on the publication of his book Diseases ofthe Heart. At that time he was already past middle age, having been a general...

Sir James Mackenzie: the Burnley years.

TiH Industrial Revolution transformed Burnley from a country town with a population of some 5,000 whose main occupations were sheep farming and the hand loom weaving of woollen cloth to one of almost 100,000 by the beginning of the present century. Factories, warehouses, foundries, workshops and coal mines had attracted the new labour force and the rapid influx was attended with appalling housi...

Sir James Mackenzie and atrial fibrillation--a new perspective.

T^OTAL irregularity of the pulse was known to the ¦* ancients, but the relationship of the pulse to the heart beat was often debated; indeed, Abercromby (1685) said that "the origin of the pulse is as mysterious as the source of the Nile". These uncertainties were abolished after Laennec (1816) had introduced the stethoscope and auscultation, when the audible rhythm of the heart and palpation o...