Harvard School of Medicine - Aesculapiad Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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DEDICATIO TRACY BURR MALLORY 1896-1951 This Class of 1952 is the last to know Tracy Mallory ,as their teacher in the second year course in Pathology. Like other classes they remember him as a wise and friendly guide through the chromatic mazes of Pathology and they understand how great was the loss to all of us when this devoted, brave and useful life came to an end on November 11, 1951. Now they have chosen to dedicate this volume to him, the greatest honor to his memory it is theirs to bestow. Tracy Mallory was himself. a student-and a very able one-in the Class of 1921 at the Harvard Medical School. It is doubtful that he experienced much difficulty with the course in Pathology, a subject that for many students is seen as through a glass darkly. Indeed, he had already learned a great deal from a famous father, Dr. Frank B. Mallory, then Pathologist- in-Chief at the Boston City Hospital. Moreover, he seemed never to forget what he had once learned of any subject, so that he was graduated as Doctor of Medicine, magna, cwm laude. After six months spent working in his fatherls labora- tory he began an eighteen-month internship on the medical service of Dr. Henry Christian at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Then for two years he was Instructor in Bacteriology at a time when Hans Zinsser was the Professor. A wanderjahr, ' studying Pathology in Austria and Germany, completed his formal training and in 1926 he became Instructor in Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Pathology Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital. There the years rolled by pro- ductively in the old laboratory with its creaking stairs. Then came World War II. He enlisted, took it as well as far younger men under- going the rigorous exertions of the indoctrina- tion training, and later served his country as Chief Consultant in Pathology for the Mediter- ranean Theater. There it was that he carried out his now classic studies on epidemic hepatitis and lower nephron nephrosis, sometimes work- ing in forward station hospitals during the cold Clampness of the winter of northern Italy. With the end of the war in Europe he returned to his duties at Harvard and in 1948 was appointed Professor of Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. With Tracy Mallory, teaching was almost as natural and instinctive as breathing. However, the process was carried out more with the mind Photograph on Page 8 courtesy of Bachrach than with the larynx. His lectures were not so much expositions for the unquestioned beneht of students as they were a sharing of a rich experience for what he hoped it might be worth to them. Judgment of values was not absolute in his mind. Indeed the quixotic had its use, perhaps as a reminder of the uncertainties of probability applied to the particular. There was, for example, the anecdote of the bloated and chronically bibulous capitalist who tardily died in the fulness of years and whose autopsy showed a liver as smooth as a baby's. Doctor Mallory wanted the student to see for himself and to think for himself. After the lecture he would roam about the laboratory pointing out with infinite patience the particular features of microscopic fields, This type of teaching was the more extended privilege of the small groups of students taking his fourth year elective course at the hospital. In these sessions he called on his vast store of pertinent knowledge, while seated at the microscope or while pacing the floor with head bent in concentration and with eyes partly closed against the rising smoke of his cigarette. Students in clinical medicine at the Massachusetts .General Hospital learned much by attending the famous clinicopatholog- ical conferences at which he presided. Here he shared fairly with the clinicians the task, suc- cessful or not, of analyzing in retrospect the strategy of the victorious disease. Here, too, it became clear why practitioners as well as pathol- ogists sought his advice, for to him microscopic pathology, though important, was but one means to an understanding of disease. Tracy Mallory was gentle in manner but iirm in purpose. He displayed throughout his life independence of spirit and an equable judg- ment of men and of events. With level courage he faced and largely overcame the physical handicap of the hemiplegia that marred the last two years of his life. Chief among qualities that must have inspired the dedication of this book was his capacity for unostentatious friendship. He was also my friend. I knew him as classmate in Harvard College and Medical School and I, too, learned much from him. And so in this perennial lexicon of youth, dedicated to him by the Class of 1952, let me record the pride in him and the deep sense of loss at his passing that we all share. William B. Castle

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