Correspondence between Alfred Blalock and M. J. Canavan, January 1950

              January  20,   1950
Ur.   11,   J.   Onnavan,   ^aaaging dditor
The Editorial  Press  Bureau
.ioodward iiuelding
-fxshington  f,   D.   C.
Dear Mr.   Canavan:
"""I had the greatest admiration for Dr. Horace Gilbert
: Sirribhy and ,-fallowed dris; -brier? career veifh nruoh Interest
'"Uut~l cannot supply you with suitable biographical rateriai.
This had better come free; someone such as ^>r. Frederick f.
Kredel, Professor of Hurgery st fhe -edicai College of the
State of ^outh Carolina at Cnariestcn, fouth Carolina.
Dr.   fcraoe Smithy pcinteu our that an organised hemothorax
ftould reduce rosoiratorv fuecticn and urged tret the aoouT.ul.Htion
of bicod in the pleural cavi*
evacuated.
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subject were substantiated in the second -forId War.  r-rhaps
hi3 most important work v;as en the operative treatment of
mitral stenosis in ehich he v.*as actively 'enraged until shortly
before his death.  He himself had aortic stenosis an i he spent
a great deal of tine and effort -in methods for treating this
condition as wall as mitral stenosis.
ne was a brilliant!young surgeon ana it is too bad that
his career v/as cut short by his untimely death.
Sincerely yours,
Alfred Blalock, k.D.
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