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Untitled typescript [? by Chick] of the text published as 'Reviews: The "Nem" System of Nutrition' in The Lancet, 1920, ii, pp 666-668 (a copy can be found in PP/CHI/B.2)

Dame Harriette Chick

The Vienna Story

[The 'Nem' system of nutrition]

This material relates to Chick's important work with the Lister Institute/Medical Research Council Mission in Vienna in the aftermath of World War I, 1919-1921, on disorders of  infant malnutrition, in particular rickets. The team she worked with discovered the curative  treatment by ultra-violet light or codliver oil, a significant development in the understanding of the role of vitamins in maintaining health. The material in this section relating to research is supplemented by her diaries PP/CHI/A.1/3-5 which cover her period in Vienna.

This collection represents a  relatively limited record of Chick's long and active career. It is particularly strong on the period around her important work in Vienna, 1919-1921, and includes some material relating to other research on nutritional questions.

These files cover nutritional research undertaken by Chick over a large part of her career, though the main focus appears to be the 1920s and 1940s. They include notes, reports, some published material and press cuttings, and correspondence.

Nutritional Research: Miscellaneous

Personal and biographical

Literature of, or relating to, humanitarian aid in post-war Vienna:
Ober-Magistratrat Dr Hornbeck, 'The Municipal Jugendamt (Ministry of Child Welfare) in Vienna' (translated by Helen Fox)
Dr Hilda Clark, 'Austria: A Short Account of the Development of Work Undertaken by the Friends Relief Mission' Dec 1920
[Friends' Relief Mission], 'Vienna as she is: suggestions for visitors' April 1921
Des Sauglings Pflege und Ernahung, Osterreichs Muttern gespendet vom Amerikanischen Roten Kreuz, May 1921 (inscribed to Dr [Elsie} Dalyell)
Privatdozent Dr Edmund Nobel, Schulerspeisung in den Stadten und kleinern Orten Niederosterreichs: Organisation und Betrieb der Amerikanisch Kinderhilfsaktion 1921
Privatdozent Dr Edmund Nobel, Schulerspeisung in den Stadten und kleinern Orten Niederosterreichs: Organisation und Betrieb der Amerikanisch Kinderhilfsaktion 1921 (relating to the second year of activities in Vienna)

Relief organisations: literature

Carbons (torn out of book) of letters from Mary Chick, c/o British Relief Mission , Hofburg I, Vienna, to Mr and Mrs Ensor about relief work with Austrian children, May-June 1920.

Carbons of Mary Chick's letters to Mr and Mrs Ensor

Nitrogen metabolism

Pages from small notebook, bound together with string, containing notes on Chick's observation and experiments, and calculations.

'Vienna Work'

Ts article by Chick, Lister Institute, Nov 1927.

'Hunger or famine oedema'

Jerry Sotola, Dept of Animal Husbandry, State College of Washington, to Chick, 31 Aug 1935, and carbon of her reply, 24 Oct 1935, and F. B. Morrison, Cornell University Animal Experiment Station, to Chick 1 Nov 1935, and carbon of her reply, 20 Nov 1935.

Alfalfa correspondence

Ph.D Thesis submitted to the University of London, 1949; stamped 'Human Nutrition Research Unit'.

Yang En-Fu, 'Effect of treatment on the Digestibility of Rice'

Includes letter from W. R. Aykroyd, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, to Chick, 6 Nov 1952, about the FAO memorandum, 'The Manufacture of Food Yeast from Molasses'. Copy of this memo, notes and charts.

Food Yeast

Copy of paper (duplicated with ms annotations) given by Chick on 'Nutritive Value of Milk and its Importance in Diet', at British Association for the Advancement of Science, Division for the Social and International Relations of Science, Reading Meeting on 'Milk in its Nutritional and Allied Aspects', 28 Mar 1939, and letter to her from Prof H. D. Kay of National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading, 26 Apr 1939.

Milk

Reprint of paper by J. W. Page in Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Vitamin G

Two letters to Chick from Professor H. P. Himsworth, University College London Medical School, 28 Jul and 21 Aug 1944, relating to the experimental production of injury to the livers of rats by means of diet.

Himsworth

Letter from Walter [Morley] Fletcher to Chick, 25 May 1931, about a 'tribute to Pirquet'
Typescript of paper (English and German versions) given at Vienna University 23 Oct 1962, 'I count it an honour to speak of Professor Piquet, my former colleague and friend'
Letter from 'Molly' [A. M.] Copping to Chick , 5 Aug 1974, referring to 'Vienna story' that the former was writing.

Later items

Ms lecture notes for lecture (with slides - slides not here) for James Lind Bicentary, Edinburgh 22 May 1953.

Scurvy: Full Notes

Originals of charts Supplementary Action Proteins

B Vitamins

Includes letter to Chick from Arthur W. Grace, Government Bacteriological Laboratory, Georgetown, British Guiana, 19 Dec 1927, enclosing 2 photographs.

Beri Beri

Three certificates:
(1) British Medical Association's Stewart Prize, 1920, in recognition of Chick's work on the prevention of scurvy and beri-beri
(2) Honorary membership of  Sociedade Brasileira de Alimentação, 1947
(3) Honorary Fellowship of  Royal Society of Medicine, 1960

Certificates

Very miscellaneous material, including letters from Martin to Chick, notes on their collaborative research, some of which overlaps with material in other files, cuttings and extracts. Also other correspondence: H. P. Gilding to Martin, 31 Dec 1941; H. S. Baar and E. M. Hickmans to Martin, 2 Jan 1942; R. F. Hunwicke, Glaxo Laboratories, to Martin, 3 Oct 1941;  A. L. Bacharach, Glaxo Laboratories, 29 Sep 1941; E. Ashworth Underwood, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, to Chick, 29 Apr 1953; A. Tillotson, University Library Cambridge, to Martin, 28 Apr 1953

Sir C. J. Martin

Ts paper 'Congenital Deaf Mutism in Low Iodine Areas', 17 Aug 1943, annotated 'seen by Dr Kemp who says he can add nothing further 22/8, copy to Dr Hallpike 22/8'. 2 photos, annotated on reverse,  of 61 year old cretin  born in Cowley Oxford, Dec 1943.

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[The 'Nem' system of nutrition]

The Vienna Story

Dame Harriette Chick

Nutritional Research: Miscellaneous

Personal and biographical

Relief organisations: literature

Carbons of Mary Chick's letters to Mr and Mrs Ensor

Nitrogen metabolism

'Vienna Work'

'Hunger or famine oedema'

Alfalfa correspondence

Yang En-Fu, 'Effect of treatment on the Digestibility of Rice'

Food Yeast

Milk

Vitamin G

Himsworth

Later items

Scurvy: Full Notes

Originals of charts Supplementary Action Proteins

B Vitamins

Beri Beri

Certificates

Sir C. J. Martin

Iodine

Diaries

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[The 'Nem' system of nutrition]

The Vienna Story

Dame Harriette Chick

Nutritional Research: Miscellaneous

Personal and biographical

Relief organisations: literature

Carbons of Mary Chick's letters to Mr and Mrs Ensor

Nitrogen metabolism

'Vienna Work'

'Hunger or famine oedema'

Alfalfa correspondence

Yang En-Fu, 'Effect of treatment on the Digestibility of Rice'

Food Yeast

Milk

Vitamin G

Himsworth

Later items

Scurvy: Full Notes

Originals of charts Supplementary Action Proteins

B Vitamins

Beri Beri

Certificates

Sir C. J. Martin

Iodine

Diaries

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