Sir Robert McCarrison

Date:
1927-1932
Reference:
SA/PHC/F.16/4
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Credit

Sir Robert McCarrison. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Scott Williamson and Pearse had significant interactions with Sir Robert McCarrison, although these are only sparsely documented in the surviving material, as follows :

Telegram to GSW from Sir R McCarrison, 1927

12pp typed letter with some pencilled marginalia from McCarrison at the Pasteur Institute Coonor, 19 Jun 1930, responding to earlier letters from GSW and IHP, discussing the significance of 'Faulty Food' in ill-health, and researches on Goitre, the concept of "Man the Resister" and the importance of nutrition in maintaining health and mentioning a number of other researchers in the field

Letter from IHP to Col and Mrs McCarrison 17 Oct 1932

Draft review of McCarrison's The Life Line of the Thyroid Glandand version for BMJ 10 Oct 1932.

Publication/Creation

1927-1932

Physical description

1 file

Acquisition note

The 1930 letter (Acc 2011) was given to the library at Wellcome Collection in September 2011 by Dr Philip Conford

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