Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator; a memoir compiled and ed from private papers and personal reminiscences . prescribed by use and wont, which are the fatalwatch-dogs of vested interest and mediocrity—had opened up a new sphere in surgery andpopularized and developed a new instrument indiagnosis which has saved thousands of livesand relieved millions of sufferers. In his own country written medical testi-monies of admiration and esteem of the highestweight are conveniently ignored by some whoseapparent object it is to cheapen their too suc-cessful and too celebrated confrere; yet he
Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator; a memoir compiled and ed from private papers and personal reminiscences . prescribed by use and wont, which are the fatalwatch-dogs of vested interest and mediocrity—had opened up a new sphere in surgery andpopularized and developed a new instrument indiagnosis which has saved thousands of livesand relieved millions of sufferers. In his own country written medical testi-monies of admiration and esteem of the highestweight are conveniently ignored by some whoseapparent object it is to cheapen their too suc-cessful and too celebrated confrere; yet henumbered amongst his friends men like SirSpencer Wells, Sir Andrew Clark, Sir WilliamDalby, Sir Henry Thompson, Mr. ChristopherHeath, Dr. Robert Barnes, Dr. Langdon Down,Dr. McCall Anderson, Mr. Walter Rivington,Mr. Anderson Critchett, Mr. Walton Coulson, 106 PEIVATE PEAOTICE. etc., etc. In France, Fauyel and Pean, etc. ;in Germany, Krause, Billroth, Senator, andmany others ; whilst in America he was lookedup to by the Profession as an oracle on ThroatDiseases from whom there could be no appeal.(See Appendix I.). HOUES. VII. LEISURE HOURS. A CASUAL observer might suppose that a man,who, for many hours a day walked from roomto room operating, prescribing, and diagnosing,and varied the strain only by driving to otherhouses or hospitals and treating more patients,must have almost lost the habit of play. Notat all; Mackenzie was as good at play—I hadalmost said the Play—as in the laboratory orconsulting-room. He was a steady the delicate throats of actors and singerscaused the operatic and dramatic stars to gravi-tate towards 19, Harley Street, Harley Street re-turned the compliment. And a first night of anyimportance was seldom unmarked by the presenceof the busy doctor. He was a great admirer ofthe histrionic profession, members of which heinvariably treated free of charge, and many apretty story is told of the notice he took of the 110 LEISURE
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