William Louis Murray Bigby James Aeneas Mackenzie Broadfoot Dorothy Frances Egan Kamel ("Kam") Hamadah Norman Dennis Woodrow

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...

James Norman Davidson, 1911-1972.

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...

Atomic data: James Mackenzie Lecture 2015.

When Sir James Mackenzie was moving back to Scotland from London in 1918 to set up the Institute for Clinical Research in St Andrews he said that he wanted ‘To do for medicine what the Atomic Theory had done for chemistry’.1 He was referring to the fact that Sir Ernest Rutherford had ‘split the atom’ the year before and ushered in a new scientific age through nuclear fission. Mackenzie saw an a...

James Mackenzie Lecture 1992. The Indians' revenge.

Introduction I FEEL highly honoured to give this James Mackenzie lecture at the conclusion of the Royal College of General Practitioners' 40th anniversary year and, like my predecessors, have found that one of the pleasures of its preparation has been rereading the biographies of Sir James Mackenziel and a few of his many publications. This man of humble Scottish origins, after many years of ge...