Auteur: Alan Gilchrist

The author left England in 1954 and practised medicine in Southern Africa for fifty-eight years. The first fifteen years were in government service, first in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and later in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1965, in the mortuary of the Fort Victoria (Masvingo, Zimbabwe) hospital, he discovered a heart which revealed to him the hidden secrets of the foetal circulation. In 1970, he opened his own medical practice in Salisbury (Harare, Zimbabwe), and in 2004 began to write and publish a book on his findings. In 2013, after the death of his wife, he returned to England where he has developed his ideas and continued to publish books on the same subject. Now, aged ninety-two, he continues to have an interest in other medical topics.