LOBAR PNEUMONIA TREATED BY MUSGRAVE PARK PHYSICIANS

Editor,

In the excellent historical article by John Hedley-Whyte¹, I saw the photograph of Sir Alexander Fleming with Professor William Thomson on the doorsteps of Number 25 University Square and I remembered that in my grandfathers visitors book there were the signatures of Sir Alexander and Lady Fleming not only at number 12 University square (figure 1), but also at Greenlawn in Donaghadee (figure 2). The exact date is not clear but I suspect about April 1942.

Fig 1.

Visitors book from 12 University Square.

Fig 2.

Visitors book from Greenlawn, Donaghadee

Professor CG Lowry (known as CG) and Professor Thomson (known as WWD) were close friends, colleagues and neighbours both in University Square, CG at number 12, and WWD at Number 25, and also next door at Donaghadee, and hence this accounts for the above records of those events.