without danger to the patient, the Crown Prince naturally trusted him.  Since Virchow has made a microscopic examination of the part which was cut away, and has declared the new growth to be benign, all Germans should watch the results of Dr. Mackenzie’s operations with sympathy, trusting that all further growth will be prevented, and that the Crown Prince will be restored to the German people in his former state of health.

[Illustration:  DR. MORELL MACKENZIE.]

Dr. Morell Mackenzie has lately reached his fiftieth year, and has attained the height of his fame as an author and practitioner.  He was born at Leytonston in 1837, and studied first in London.  At the age of twenty-two he passed his examination, then practiced as physician in the London Hospital, and obtained his degree in 1862.  A year later he received the Jackson prize from the Royal Society of Surgeons for his treatment of a laryngeal case.

He completed his studies in Paris, Vienna (with Siegmund), and Budapest.  In the latter place he worked with Czermak, making a special study of the laryngoscope.  Later he published an excellent work on “Diseases of the Throat and Nose,” which was the fruit of twelve years’ work.  The evening before the day on which this work was to have been issued, the whole edition was destroyed by a fire which occurred in the printing establishment, and had to be reprinted from the proof sheets, which were saved.  In 1870 his work “On Growths in the Throat” appeared, and he has also published many articles in the British Medical Journal, the Lancet, Medical Times and Gazette, etc., which have been translated into different languages, making his name renowned all over Europe.

Since he founded the first English hospital for diseases of the throat and chest, in London in 1863, and held the position of lecturer on diseases of the throat in the London Medical College, his career has been watched with interest by the public, and his practice in England is remarkable.  Therefore it is no wonder that his lately published work “On the Hygiene of the Vocal Organs” has reached its fourth edition already.  This work is read not only by physicians, but also by singers and lecturers.

As a learned man in his profession, as an experienced diagnostician, and as a skillful and fortunate practitioner, he is surpassed by none; and his ability will be well known far beyond the borders of Great Britain if fortune favors him and he restores the future Emperor of Germany to his former strength and vigor, without which we cannot imagine this knightly form.  The certainty with which Dr. Mackenzie speaks of permanent cures which he has effected in similar cases, together with the clear and satisfactory report of the great pathologist Virchow, lead us to look to the future with confidence.—­Illustrirte Zeitung.

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