The Long Fox Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Bristol at the meeting of the Medico-Chirurgical Society on December 9th, 1925 ... by Carey F. Coombs on the ætiology of cardiac disease.

  • Coombs, C. F. (Carey Franklin), 1879-1932.
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[1925?]
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Credit: The Long Fox Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Bristol at the meeting of the Medico-Chirurgical Society on December 9th, 1925 ... by Carey F. Coombs on the ætiology of cardiac disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the first place, I realise the kindly wish of my colleagues to recognise work done in Bristol, and this is a source of deep satisfaction. Let me therefore take this opportunity of thanking them for doing me so great an honour. In the second place, it is also a pleasure to have an opportunity of paying a tribute to the memory of Dr. Long Fox. He died several years before I came to Bristol, so that I never saw him ; but his name was made familiar to me by my father, who had the greatest admiration for him. He used to come back from his visits to meetings in Bristol laden with fragments of wit and wisdom collected from his talks with Dr. Long Fox, and these he would retail to me with keen delight. Some years ago, also, he gave me a book by Dr. Long Fox, a volume on cerebral localisation, partly in print and partly in manuscript, and containing over fifty beautiful drawings of the brain. This book, which was a collection of observations made not for publication but for the pleasure of making it, was a product of that “ student spirit ” of which Sir Arthur Keith spoke not long ago, a spirit of ceaseless inquiry which, so far from being crushed by the routine of a heavy practice, discovers in that very routine the material on which it feeds and grows. His humility was the sign manual of the true student, and it is fitting that our school should do honour to itself, as well as to Edward Long Fox, by this commemoration of his name. My third source of gratification at being elected to this lectureship is that it gives me an opportunity of saying with an added emphasis lent by this “ brief authority ” something of work which has been and is being, and will, I hope, continue to be done in the study of cardiac disease and its causation.