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Ref NoDEP/PJO/1
Acc No2011/28
TitleLetter from Sir James Mackenzie to John Parkinson
Date23 Dec 1915
TermFirst World War
Description Of ItemMackenzie writes of visiting the London Hospital for the first time since war broke out and talking to Morris; whether a legacy from Miss Patterson was likely; a study on cardiac disease, called 'soldier's heart', carried out on 300 soldiers invalided home; recommends, with the support of Osler and Allbutt, the establishment of a hospital for patients with weak hearts rather than heart failure; an article in the British Medical Journal connecting microbes to heart disease.
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