Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator : a memoir compiled and ed. from private papers and personal reminiscences / by the Rev. H.R. Haweis.

  • Hugh Reginald Haweis
Date:
1893
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Credit: Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator : a memoir compiled and ed. from private papers and personal reminiscences / by the Rev. H.R. Haweis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    terms. I had had. some experience there myself and strongly advised him to go. However, that fell through. He was much pulled down in 1890 with a first attack of influenza, and on his partial recovery I was extremely anxious he should leave England and accompany me to Tangier. He would and would not. He seemed so keen upon picking up the lost threads of his practice. Patients who had been listening to other charmers discovered that, after all, there was but one Mackenzie, and they were flocking back to him. He was also in great request at Marlborough House, and in high favour gene- rally with our Eoyal personages, and therefore, of course, with the cream of the aristocracy. The tide had again turned, and Mackenzie was on the top of the wave. HI and worn, he could not tear himself from London. The London fogs of winter 1891 were setting in, and in November Mackenzie was again down with influenza. Soon after- wards I got ill myself. In December, not realizing how seriously affected he was, I wrote and told him my symptoms. He sent word back immediately, My dear fellow, I would come and see you myself instantly, but I can't leave my bed, and if I did I could not get out of the
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