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IR MORELL MACKENZIE'S father, who was a doctor, was killed by being thrown from his gig, when the boy was only fourteen. He began life in the Union Life Assurance Company, Cornhill, but soon entered as a student at the London Hospital, where, and afterwards at Vienna, he commenced the distinguished career, of which the results are known to all the world.