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Sir Arthur MacNalty (1880–1969) worked in public health and preventive medicine. In 1908, with the cardiologist Sir Thomas Lewis, he recorded for the first time the use of the electrocardiograph in diagnosing heart disease. In 1935 he became Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, and it was mainly because of MacNalty that the anti-diptheria vaccine became available free to local authorities. From 1937–1940 he served as honourable physician to George VI, and he helped organise the emergency medical services during the Second World War. In 1941, at the invitation of Winston Churchill, he was editor-in-chief of the official 'Medical History of the War'. MacNalty was greatly interested in medical history, and became the Honourable President of the British Society for the History of Medicine.
Royal College of Physicians, London
London
Title
Sir Arthur MacNalty (1880–1969)
Date
1958
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 76.2 x W 61 cm
Accession number
X220
Acquisition method
bequeathed by the sitter, 1969
Work type
Painting
