{{short description|American physician}} {{Infobox person | name = George Kenneth Mallory | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|02|14}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|04|08|1900|02|14}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = describing the Mallory-Weiss syndrome | education = | alma_mater = Harvard Medical School | employer = | occupation = Physician | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }}
'''George Kenneth Mallory''' (February 14, 1900 – April 8, 1986) was an American pathologist chiefly remembered for describing the Mallory–Weiss tear with Soma Weiss.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 14 February 1900, the son of Persis McClain Tracy of Chautauqua, New York and Frank Burr Mallory.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haythorn |first=Samuel R. |date=1942 |title=Frank Burr Mallory. 1862–1941 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/path.1700540218 |journal=The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology |language=en |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=263–267 |doi=10.1002/path.1700540218 |issn=1555-2039|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1926, and subsequently worked at the Mallory Institute of Pathology (founded by, and named after, his father) at Boston City Hospital throughout his career, becoming director in 1951.<ref>{{cite dictionary|first1=Barry G.|last1=Firkin|first2=Judith A.|last2=Whitworth|title=Dictionary of Medical Eponyms|edition=Second|isbn=1-85070-477-5|year=1996|publisher=The Parthenon Publishing Group Limited|page=252}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Herbella|first1=F.A.M.|last2=Matone|first2=J.|last3=Del Grande|first3=J.C.|title=Eponyms in esophageal surgery, part 2|journal=Diseases of the Esophagus|year=2005|volume=18|issue=1|pages=4-16|doi=10.1111/j.1442-2050.2005.00447.x|doi-access=free|pmid=15773835}}</ref>
In 1929, Mallory and Soma Weiss, a physician at Harvard, reported on 15 cases of severe, painless hemorrhage caused by a tear in the mucosa of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction preceded by vomiting in alcoholic patients.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=G.K.|last1=Mallory|first2=S.|last2=Weiss|title=Hemorrhages from lacerations of the cardiac orifice of the stomach due to vomiting|journal=American Journal of the Medical Sciences|year=1929|volume=178|pages=506–515|url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00000441-192910000-00005&D=ovft&PDF=y|via=Ovid|access-date=10 June 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> They reported a further six cases in 1932.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=S.|last1=Weiss|first2=G.K.|last2=Mallory|title=Lesions of the cardiac orifice of the stomach produced by vomiting|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|year=1932|volume=98|issue=16|doi=10.1001/jama.1932.02730420011005|pages=1353–1355}}</ref> This syndrome has become known as Mallory–Weiss syndrome.
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