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19069045

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-12-12
pubmed:abstractText
Lucy Wills was one of a pioneering generation of women in medicine and medical research in England. After a double first honours degree in botany and geology from Cambridge in 1911, she travelled to South Africa, where she worked as a nurse during the First World War. Wills then gained a medical degree in London in 1920. By the late 1920s she had developed an interest in haematology and began travelling to India to investigate pernicious anaemia in pregnancy. There she identified a substance often called 'the Wills' factor', which was later recognised as folic acid. Wills undertook a placebo trial of routine iron supplementation in pregnant women during the Second World War, hampered, but not stopped, by bombing. In retirement, she continued to study nutritional effects on health in South Africa and Fiji.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
QIS
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1478-2715
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
89-91
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Lucy Wills (1888-1964): the life and research of an adventurous independent woman.
pubmed:affiliation
Health Information Department, German Institute of Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany. hilda.bastian@iqwig.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Biography, Historical Article, Portraits