What is it about?
On return from India, Dr. Morehead married Ms. Georgiana Ann Chase. This marriage has not been referred to in the biographical accounts of Dr. Morehead that I have been able to read. I wondered why this was so. In this letter I describe Mrs. Morehead's admission to lunatic asylums and wonder whether this stigma prompted her being excluded from Dr. Morehead's biographies.
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Why is it important?
Exclusion of this relationship deprives us of knowledge of Dr. Morehead's feelings before the marriage, how he discovered her illness and his subsequent behaviour. Our understanding of this outstanding physician and person remains incomplete.
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My understanding of Dr. Morehead's character leads me to believe that if he knew that a biography was to be written after his death, he would have echoed Oliver Cromwell: 'Paint me as I am, warts and all.'
Dr Sunil K Pandya
Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre
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This page is a summary of: Letter to the Editor, Journal of Medical Biography, February 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0967772015617874.
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