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WE regret to announce the death on November 19, at the age of sixty-six years, of Dr. Dan McKenzie, who besides being a consulting surgeon in diseases of the ear, nose and throat and a former editor of the Journal of Laryngology and Otology, was a keen student of medical history and folk-lore. In addition to a textbook on his speciality, of which the second edition appeared in 1927, he was the author of “The City of Din” (1916), “Aromatics and the Soul: a Study of Smells” (1923), and “The Infancy of Medicine: an Enquiry into the Influence of Folk-Loreupon the Evolution of Scientific Medicine” (1927), of which a notice appeared in NATURE of January 28, 1928, p. 133.
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[Obituary]. Nature 136, 1018 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361018b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1361018b0