| Description Of Item | Includes photographs of charts showing age groups and mortality in cases of acute myocardial infarction; 'An Evaluation of Anticoagulant Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarcts' by A Rae Gilchrist and John A Tulloch, reprint from the Scottish Medical Journal, 1956; 'Virtue of Prompt Anticoagulant therapy in Impending Myocardial Infarction' by E Sterling Nichol et al, reprint from Annals of Internal Medicine, 1959; and agenda for the working party on anticoagulant therapy in coronary thrombosis of the Medical Research Council, February 1967. In a separate bundle titled 'RCP London Conference on Occlusive Vascular Disease 13-14 November 1959 - A-C Therapy in Occlusive Coronary Artery Disease - ARG Sat 14th Nov 11.55-12.15' correspondence between Gilchrist and Lawson McDonald, Institute of Cardiology, University of London on publishing the proceedings of the conference; Gilchrist's paper 'Anticoagulant Therapy in Occlusive Coronary Artery Disease' with charts; correspondence with Sir Robert Platt, President of the Royal College of Physicians on Gilchrist's attendance at the conference; conference programme; and correspondence between Professor C Holten, Aarhus, Denmark, Gilchrist and Platt on Holten's attendance at the conference. Also included are Gilchrist's notes and research for the paper and a roll of patients' charts, wrapped around Gilchrist's certificate of fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London, which were in the same box as the folder and may relate. In a folder labelled 'Ac [Acute] Myocardial Infarcts - Data for RCP paper'. |