Leonardo da Vinci, and the Movement of the Heart

however including Mr. Arbuthnot Lane-are inclined to jog along in the old-fashioned way. You have a fine big pathological building but there seemed to be very few workers in it." It may be of some interest to say a few words here about Dr. Douglas, who was the grandfather of Mr. Lewis Douglas, lately American Ambassador to Great Britain. He was the son of a Scots doctor who after qualifying in Edinburgh and London migrated to Canada where he became the leading surgeon. He was unfortunate enough to get into difficulties over some mining properties at an age when he could hardly hope to extricate himself from his commitments, and his son, Dr. James Douglas, therefore made himself responsible for them, threw up the professorship of chemistry which he then held and went into business, becoming one of the richest men in the States. He spent £250,000 on the Memorial Hospital, New York and, in addition to this, vast sums in other directions. This was the largest sum spent on cancer research up to that time and it should really have come to Guy's.