EDITORIAL
60th anniversary of Thorax
The old case: Thorax in the 1970s
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor A Seaton
a.seaton@abdn.ac.uk
Keywords: Thorax
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As a young consultant in Cardiff in the 1970s I inherited two things: a battered old brown bakelite case that had been carried by earlier South Wales tuberculosis doctors and the editorship of Thorax. The two fitted well together. The work was shared with the surgical editors, Ben Milstein then Hugoe Matthews, who dealt with thoracic surgery and anatomy, the rest coming to me. The BMJ agreed to buy me an electric typewriter and pay secretarial expenses. Approximately one or two papers arrived each day, to be filed in the brown case. This held about 15, and it was possible to carry a week’s work together with my stethoscope wherever I went; when it was full I knew I had to deal with it. The process was quite simple and conducted by letter. Like my predecessors, I read every paper, decided whether it was of
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