| Description Of Item | Correspondence relating to Smith's membership of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee (Scotland) Coronary Thrombosis Study Group, including incoming and outgoing correspondence. Letter from D P Cuthbertson, Rowett Research Institute, Buckburn on medical training, 1951; letter from Dr Rae Gilchrist, Edinburgh enclosing Memorandum on the Increasing Incidence of Coronary Thrombosis with Suggestions for its Further Investigation, 1951; correspondence with J M Johnstone of the Committee on topics for discussion and the distribution of minutes, 1951; correspondence with George Montgomery, Pathology Department, University of Glasgow giving a report of visit by Dr J N Morris of the Medical Research Council's Social Medicine Research Unit who was looking for data on atheroma, 1951; letter from T Ferguson Rodger, Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Glasgow, who reported that Sir Ernest Rock Carling had gathered statistics on cardiac ischaemia in pensions cases, 1951; letter from H A Shapiro, South African Medical Journal enclosing an article (not included) and reporting the incidence of cardiac infarction, July 1952; letter from J G Thomson, Student Health Officer, University of Edinburgh with statistics on student diastolic blood pressure; newspaper cutting on coronary thrombosis, 1951; statistics on deaths from coronary thrombosis in Scotland by age and occupation. |