Letter from Howard Walter Florey to Edward Mellanby, Medical Research Council, Old Queen Street, London Says J L Gowans is in hospital with a pleural effusion which is almost certainly tuberculosis - imagines Gowans will be away for at least six months - Gowans was doing very well - suggests that Gowans be given 6 months leave on pay - feels he needs every encouragement - has not yet heard what the physicians think of the prognosis. 3 August 1949