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Frank Burr Mallory, from the American Journal of Pathology, 1933
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| Born | 12 November 1862 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Died | 27 September 1941 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | pathology |
Frank Burr Mallory (1862-1941) was an American pathologist at the Boston City Hospital and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, after whom the Mallory body is named.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on 12th November 1862, and received his medical degree in 1890 from Harvard Medical School. He became an assistant pathologist at Boston City Hospital in 1891, working under William Thomas Councilman. In 1893 he travelled to Europe to train under Hans Chiari in Prague and Ernst Ziegler in Freiburg.
After returning to Harvard, he became an Assistant Professor in 1896, and Associate Professor of Pathology in 1901. He became Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School from 1928 to 1932.
His contributions in the field of pathology included improving techniques and standardisation of tissue staining; his book, written with James Homer Wright, was the standard textbook in this field[1]. He also studied the function of histiocytes, he confirmed that the whooping cough bacillus discovered by Jules Bordet was the causative agent, and he worked on improvements in classification of tumours, particularly meningiomas, and cirrhosis of the liver.
He was president of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists in 1910, and was its treasurer from 1911 to 1940. He was the editor of the Journal of Medical Research from 1923, and then founding editor of the American Journal of Pathology from 1925 to 1940. He received honorary degrees from Tufts University (Sc.D., 1928) and Boston University (Sc.D., 1932), and was awarded the Kober medal in 1935 by the Association of American Physicians for outstanding service in pathology.
He died on 27th September 1941, aged 78[2]. The pathology department at Boston City Hospital, the Mallory Institute of Pathology, was named after him.
One son, George Kenneth Mallory, became Professor of Pathology at Boston City Hospital in 1948, and the Mallory-Weiss syndrome is named after him. Another son, Tracy B. Mallory, was subsequently Chief of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (succeeding James Homer Wright in 1926)[3], and president of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists in 1951.