MACKENZIE, Sir MORELL (1837-92). An eminent English laryngologist. Born at Leyton stone, Essex. the son of a physician, he received his professional education at the London 'Hospital Medical C allege, where he took his degree in 1862. and at Paris and Budapest. At the latter city he met Czcrmak, who taught him the use of the laryngoscope. in the employment of he soon became an expert. and which on his re turn he introduced in London. In 1860 he be came connected with the London Hospital and held successively the posts of resident medical officer, registrar, assistant physician, and phy sician until 1874. when he resigned. He founded the London Throat Hospital in 1863. His opera tive skill soon made him the most prominent man in his specialty in England, and led to his ap pointment in 1887 to attend the Crown Prince of Germany, afterwards Emperor Frederick III., who was attacked with cancer of the throat. In spite of bitter controversies with the German physicians in attendance, Mackenzie remained with the Emperor until his death in 1888. For
these services he was knighted by Queen Victoria and received the Grand Cross and Star of the Hohenzollern Order of Germany. He was the first president of the British Laryngologieal So ciety: president of the laryngological section of the international medical congress held at Copen hagen in 1884: was a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Vienna and of the Medical So ciety of Prague; and an honorary fellow of the American Laryngologieal Association. His more important works are: The Use of the Laryngo scope (London, 1866) ; Essay on Growths in the Larynx I London, 1571) ; .1. Manual of Diseases of the Throat and lose (New York, 18801 : The Hygiene of the Vocal Organs (London, 1SS6) ; and The Fatal Illness of Frederick the Noble (London, 18581.