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Acute Pancreatitis

1959; BMJ; Volume: 1; Issue: 5113 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.1.5113.6

0959-8138

A. V. Pollock,

Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment

representatives even for preliminary discussions with the executors of Alfred Nobel's will until it was evident that the will would become legally recognized.Leading conservative politicians in Sweden declared the will as an infringement of the-legal rights of Nobel's heirs.Meanwhile some of Nobel's heirs in Sweden had brought an action against the executors, claiming that the will should be declared invalid.The executors of the will appointed by Nobel, Mr. Ragnar Sohlman and Civ.eng.Rudolf Lilljequist, would have met an almost insurmountable resistance from the authorities and the heirs had not the nephew of Alfred Nobel, Ludwig's son Emanuel Nobel, in February, 1898, declared that he, although the death of Alfred Nobel had heavily shaken the financial ground of the naphtha enterprises in Russia, was willing to do his best to see that his uncle's will should be respected.The action of Emanuel Nobel on this occasion deserves to be remembered.Such a disregard of what was considered the rights of the heirs as Alfred Nobel had shown was in fact unheard of.Because of the extraordinarily good relations which had always prevailed within the family, Emanuel felt convinced that deeper motives had induced his uncle's decision.He therefore, when the highest representative of the State claimed that Alfred Nobel had been "influenced by peace fanatics and particularly by women and advised him to act in favour of the heirs' rights, responded: "Your Majesty !It is not my intention to take any action through which members of my family in the future could be blamed by the most highly deserving scientists of the time for having deprived them of something which duly ought to be theirs."Emanuel Nobel called the executors "solicitors of the soul."He participated in the preliminary discussions between them and the representatives of the Swedish Academy and the Karolinska Institutet.A proposal was made on June 5, 1898, according to which the heirs should be allotted one and a half years' income to the estate, provided they recognized the will and waived any further claims upon the estate.