Memoir on Phenylketonuria

Date:
1964
Reference:
PENROSE/2/28/2/5
Part of:
L. S. Penrose Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Typescript by Penrose given the title "Phenylketonuria", and labelled "Memoirs - 1964". Contains an anecdotal account of Penrose's discovery of the disease in a patient at the Royal Eastern Counties Institution, Colchester, early attempts at treatment, experiments on the inheritance of the disease, and the social significance of the discovery and dissemination of information about Phenylketonuria.

Publication/Creation

1964

Physical description

11 folios

Terms of use

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Location of original

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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