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Horace Smirk

Sir Frederick Horace Smirk (12 December 1902 – 18 May 1991) was a notable New Zealand professor of medicine. He was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England, in 1902.

In the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours, Smirk was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Selected publications

  • Smirk, F. H. (1957). High arterial pressure. Blackwell Scientific Publications.

References

Further reading

  • Fastier, F. N. (1968). Sir Horace Smirk: professor emeritus. The New Zealand Medical Journal, 67(429), 258–269.
  • Doyle, A. E. (1991). Sir Horace Smirk. Pioneer in drug treatment of hypertension. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 17(2), 247–250. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.17.2.247</nowiki>
  • Simpson FO. (1991) Frederick Horace Smirk, KBE, MD, Hon DSc (Hahnemann), FRCP, FRACP: hypertension investigator and pioneer of antihypertensive therapy. J Hypertens., 9(10):887-91. PMID: 1658130.