Braddon, William Leonard (1861-1936)

“The Beri-beri piracy, Seremban (F.M.S.)”. In typescript, with numerous holograph additions and corrections. The author strongly protests that he has not received due credit for his work on the origin and prevention of Beri-beri, but that this has been entirely usurped by Dr. Henry Fraser (1873-1930) and Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton (1875-1938).

1911

3 ll. 4to. 28 x 211/2 cm

Presented 1931.

A memoir of the author is in the Lancet 1936, ii, p. 1304.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Cantlie Papers.