George Kenneth Mallory (February 14, 1900 – April 8, 1986) was an American pathologist chiefly remembered for describing the Mallory–Weiss tear. He was born in

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on 14 February 1900, the son of

Frank Burr Mallory Frank Burr Mallory (November 12, 1862 – September 27, 1941) was an American pathologist at the Boston City Hospital and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, after whom the Mallory body is named. The Pathology Department at Bost ...

. He received his medical degree from

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in 1926, and subsequently worked at the Mallory Institute of Pathology (founded by, and named after, his father) at

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throughout his career, becoming director in 1951. He lectured at both Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical School. He was appointed a professor at Boston Medical School in 1948, and he became an emeritus professor in 1966. His primary interest was diseases of the liver and kidneys. In 1929 Mallory and

Soma Weiss Soma Weiss (January 27, 1898 – January 31, 1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician. Early life Soma Weiss was born in 1898 in Bistriţa, Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied physiology and biochemistry in Budapest. Immediat ...

, a physician at Harvard, described 15 cases of severe, painless hemorrhage caused by a tear in the mucosa of the

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preceded by vomiting in alcoholic patients. They described a further 6 cases in 1932.S. Weiss, G. K. Mallory. Lesions of the cardiac orifice of the stomach produced by vomiting. Journal of the American Medical Association; 1932, 98: 1353–1355 This syndrome has become known as Mallory–Weiss syndrome.

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