Morell Mackenzie

Morell Mackenzie (* July 7, 1837 in Leytonstone, Essex, † February 3, 1892 in London ) was an English physician.

Mackenzie studied at the London Hospital Medical College, in Paris, Vienna and Pest, where he met Johann Nepomuk Czermak closer, founded in 1863 a hospital for diseases of the throat and in the same year received an award from the Royal College of Surgeons for a work on laryngeal diseases.

Soon after, he became assistant physician at the Royal London Hospital, then doctor and lecturer for laryngeal diseases. He won as an experienced diagnostician and skillful surgeon a great reputation and published many papers on his specialty and the main work: Manual of diseases of the throat and nose (London 1880-84, 2 vols; German under Mitwirk the author and ed. . with zahlr. additives vers. Felix Semon as the diseases of the throat and nose, Berlin 1880-84, 2 vols ). 1887 Mackenzie treated laryngeal disease of the German Crown Prince, later Emperor Frederick III. His diagnosis of a benign tumor, which later turned out to be cancer of the larynx, delayed in the opinion of German doctors treating the disease, at the Friedrich died in 1888.

Works

• The Use of the Laryngoscope in Diseases of the Throat. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1865.
• Essays on Growths in the Larynx. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, in 1871.
• The Pharmacopoeia of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat. London: Churchill, 1872. 4th ed Churchill, London 1881 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf