William Donald Wykeham Brooks CBE FRCP (1905 - 1993)

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Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Birth and Parentage 1.2 Education 1.3 Marriage and Family 1.4 World War 2 1.5 Retirement 1.6 Death 2 Sources 3 Acknowledgements 3.1 Further Reading 3.2 Publications 3.3 Mentioned in

Biography

William Donald Wykeham Brooks CBE 1956, MA DM (Oxon); FRCP; was Consulting Physician to St Mary’s Hospital, the Brompton Hospital, to the Royal Navy; to the King Edward VII Convalescent Home for Officers, Osborne, and Chief Medical Officer to the Eagle Star Insurance Company.

Birth and Parentage

William Donald Wykeham, known as Donald, the eldest son of Arthur Edmund Brooks, and his wife Alice née Swatton, was born in the heart of the Black Country, in Amblecote, Oldswinford, Stourbridge, Staffordshire, ^[1] on 3 August 1905. ^{[2] [3]} He was named after William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester; founder of Winchester School. According to the family, Arthur Edmund Brooks had the highest opinion of this school.

Arthur Brooks had a teaching post at the Tewfikieh School and Training College, the "Eton College of Egypt", in Cairo, but the North African climate did not suit their baby son, and his parents brought him back to England. They settled in London and Donald's father took up a post as a mathematics teacher in the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, New Cross.

Donald had one younger brother, Eric Arthur Swatton. His mother Alice was 8 years older than her husband and in the 1911 census she was 42. They lived at no. 6 Canonbie Road, Forest Hill, an eight room house in a leafy part of south east London, not far from the Crystal Palace. The house still exists today, the end of a terraced building with a path leading round the side of the house. A longish garden at the back stretches to a lane running parallel to Canonbie Rd.

Household of Arthur Edmund Brooks, resident at 6 Canonbie Road, Forest Hill, 1911 Census^[4]

Name	Profile	Rel. to Head	Sex	Age last B'day	Marr./Sing.	Tot. ch. b. alive	Ch. still living	Ch. who have died	Occup.	Ind. or Service	Empl. or Worker	Place of Birth
Arthur Edmund Brooks	Arthur Edmund Brooks	Head	Male	34	Married 6 y				Sec. Schoolmaster (assist.)	Askes	Worker	Worcs. Lye, Oldswinford
Alice Brooks	Alice Swatton	Wife	Female	42	Married 6 yr	2	2	0				London, Stepney
William Donald Wykeham	W.D.W.Brooks	Son	Male	5								Staffs., Stourbridge, Amblecote
Eric Arthur Swatton	Eric Arthur Swatton Brooks	Son	Male	3								London, St. Peter’s, Dulwich
Lily Eliza Palmer		Servant	Female	20	Single						Dom. Servant	London, Lewisham

In 1913, Donald’s father became Headmaster of Maidenhead County Boys' School, (now Desborough College) and the family moved to Berkshire. ^[5][6]

Donald's grandfather, Stephen Albert Brooks, a nail manufacturer, died in Stourbridge, in 1916. Donald never knew his paternal grandmother, Sarah Hammersley. His maternal grandfather William Swatton a London pub landlord, passed away in 1873; his maternal grandmother Sarah Harper the daughter of another pub landlord in Dudley, Staffordshire, died in 1909.

Education

Donald was educated at Reading School, 14 miles away from his new home. He was an academic high flyer and went up to St John’s, Oxford, as a White Scholar. ^[7] He achieved First Class Honours in physiology and then went to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London as a University Scholar.

W. Donald W. Brooks and Humphrey de Bohun Kempthorne

His Oxford University Physiology Tripos Group photo of 1928 shows him right of Humphrey de Bohun Kempthorne, (1907-1944), who would later make Donald a beneficiary of his will.

Map of British Indian Empire

At the age of 19, he went to India, leaving on the P&O steamer Nankin for Calcutta, West Bengal, (occupation given as 'Clerk') on 4 April 1925.^[8] His youngest grandchild, C. remembers being shown a photograph album with photographs of Donald in India, including one of him at the Khyber Pass, so he must have made his way across India to the Punjab. Whether he reached Afghanistan is as yet unknown.

In 1928 he achieved First Class Honours in his final honours year at St Mary’s Hospital School of Physiology, where he was a student of Charles McMoran Wilson, (later Lord Moran of Manton, Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School) who had an influential role in the development of the National Health Service and was in 1945, the person responsible for assembling the war crimes committee. ^[9] In 1931 Donald won the Cheadle gold medal, the top prize at St Mary’s.

He then sailed to the USA (on the S.S. Laconia (Cunard Line) from Liverpool on 17 Sept 1932)^[10] on a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship, ( a medical travelling fellowship provided by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York)^[11] and spent a year at the Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester NY, USA, a 250-bed community teaching hospital which opened in 1926 and was affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC).^[12]

First Class Main Staircase - RMS Berengaria[13]

He returned on 20 September 1933, arriving at Southampton on the RMS Berengaria (Cunard).^[14]

On qualification he was appointed house physician to the medical unit, then headed by F S Langmead [Munk’s Roll, Vol.VI, p.273], and he continued in the unit as an assistant in the following year when he obtained his MRCP. He told how at this time he used to slip away to Horder’s rounds at Bart’s, later Lord Horder [Munk's Roll, Vol.V, p.198]. ^[15]

Charles Wilson found this out and taxed him with it; having heard his explanation, Wilson encouraged him to continue - saying that he would be wasting his time going to most of the rounds at St Mary’s. Also, expressing a personal antipathy which grew with the years, Wilson advised him to ‘sup with a long spoon’.^[16]

Charles McMoran Wilson

Around this time Donald also became a Freemason, probably, like another member of St Mary's Hospital, Alexander Fleming, whom he knew, ^[17]being initiated into Sancta Maria Lodge No. 2682. (Fully searchable Membership registers from 1751-1921 are available in the Library via Ancestry co.uk.) ^[18]

Marriage and Family

On 12 May 1934, Donald married Phyllis Kathleen Juler, the eldest daughter of the Ophthalmologist to the Royal Household, Dr Frank Anderson Juler CVO, and his wife, Mabel Alicia née Chamberlayne.

Wedding of W. Donald W. Brooks and Phyllis Kathleen Juler

In the Electoral Register for Marylebone, London 1934, they are listed as living at 46, Kensington Park Gardens, W11, and Donald's practice was at 96, Harley Street.^[19][20]

They had four children, Christopher Juler Wykeham, Jill Elizabeth, Nicholas Peter, and Anne Prunella.

William Donald Wykeham and Phyllis Kathleen Brooks’ Children

Full Name	Profile	Birth	Place of Birth	Citation	Death	Place of Death	Citation
Christopher Juler Wykeham		16 Sept 1935	Paddington, Middlesex, UK	[21]	28 Apr 2021	Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK
Jill Elizabeth		28 Dec 1937	Paddington, Middlesex, UK	[22]	24 May 1991	Chipping Norton, England, UK	[23]
Nicholas Peter		14 Jan 1941	Virginia Water, North Western Surrey, UK	[24]	2 Feb 2014	Birmingham, Warwickshire, UK	[25]
Anne Prunella	Anne Prunella Brooks	3 Jun 1944	Marylebone, London, UK	[26]

In the year that his eldest son Christopher was born, W.D.W Brooks became a consulting physician at St Mary’s Hospital from 1935 to 1970. ^[16]

He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, in 1939 ^[27] and was appointed a member of the Prophit Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of London, formed to conduct a survey into tuberculosis in selected groups of young adults

with the special objects of following the natural history of the infection from its earliest stages and of determining which persons or groups of persons are most likely to develop clinical disease. The project was made possible by a bequest of the late Mr J.M.G. Prophit, and was guided by a widely representative committee under the chairmanship of the President. Observations were made over a ten year period from 1935 to 1944. Ten thousand healthy adults came under observation – they belonged to five groups – contacts, nurses, medical students, naval entrants, and controls – and were examined at yearly or sometimes six monthly intervals by chest radiography and by the graded Mantoux intradermal tuberculin test. The subjects were followed up for varying lengths of time to see what proportion developed tuberculosis. Owing to difficulties caused by the war, observations on some of the groups had to be curtailed, and attention became focused mainly on nurses. ^[28][29][30]

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection of the lungs and sometimes other parts of the body, spread by droplets in the coughs or sneezes of a person with the disease. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption' in the 19th century and was a major cause of death in Britain at that time. The disease is still common where there is overcrowding, malnourishment and poor health care. Diagnosis may include an X-ray of the chest to detect damage to the lungs, and in the 1950s a Mass Radiography Centre was created in Glasgow in a drive against the disease. Treatment nowadays involves a prolonged course of medication - but in the past treatment entailed many months away from others in a 'sanatorium' or special hospital.^[31]

From 1938, he was also on the staff of the Royal Brompton Hospital, ^[32] extensively damaged by fire in the Blitz during the Second World War,^[33]and was a Physician in charge of Out-Patients at St Mary's Hospital, along with Drs Thomas C. Hunt and A. Hope Gosse. ^[34](One of his colleagues at the Brompton was Howard Nicholson, who was married to Winsome, née Piercy, a cousin once removed of one of Dr W. D. W. Brooks' future sons-in-law. As far as is known, neither Brooks, nor Nicholson were aware of the connection.)

World War 2

When war broke out, Phyllis took Christopher (called Chriffer) and Jill with her to Chipping Norton, to The Gray House, the home of her mother’s cousin Dorothy (Dotty) Bates. On 6 October 1939 they were registered in the 1939 England and Wales National Registration there.

Life and work went on, and in 1940, as one of the four youngest doctors of the college, Donald gave three of the traditional Goulstonian Lectures on the subject of "The Pathology and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis" for the Royal College of Physicians, at the College, Pall Mall East, London, at 2.30 p.m on February 22, 27 and 29. ^[35][36][37]

Donald's research into pulmonary tuberculosis was a contributing factor to the health, treatment and prevention of sickness of sailors in the Second World War. By 1815, 'consumption' as it had been traditionally termed, was the cause of one in four deaths in Britain alone. ^[38][39] The general problem and the incidence of tuberculosis was of concern to interested physicians throughout the war. ^[40] After 1882 when Robert Koch published his discovery that the disease was caused by a bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, efforts to combat the disease increased. ^[41]

Public health campaigns in the 1920s tried to halt the spread of TB

During the war, it became all the more urgent to find ways of halting the scourge of TB, and x-ray examination was introduced. A letter to the British Medical Journal from April 1942 illustrates how widely felt the necessity was to find a cure for the disease.

Letter to the BMJ on Tuberculosis

^[42]

Tuberculosis was rife in the Navy during the war and Donald’s experience led him to write about it in medical journals ^[43]and in the medical history of the war. He also contributed sections on chest wounds, respiratory diseases and tuberculosis, in editions of Conybeare’s textbook of Medicine between 1940-60.

Donald’s practice in Harley Street was considerable and was supplemented by his position as chief medical officer to the Eagle Star Insurance Company.^[16]

From 1940 to 1945, Donald was Temporary Surgeon Captain in the Royal Navy Voluntary Reserve, subsequently Consultant Physician to the Royal Navy and to the King Edward VII Home for Convalescent Officers.^{[44] [45]}As a thoracic physician, he was in general charge of the organisation of thoracic surgery during the war.^[46]

Surgeon Captain William Donald Wykeham Brooks

Taped up Windows in Harley St, London - World War Two. Photograph taken from one of the attic windows of 96, Harley St. opposite.[47]

Because of the dangers associated with living in London during the War, Donald moved his family out of the town to Virginia Water, South West Surrey, where their son Nicolas was born on 2 February 1941.

Also in 1941, Charles Wilson, Donald's mentor, selected him to treat Winston Churchill on occasion, especially when Wilson, as Churchill's personal physician was absent.^{[16] [48]} After Germany's Operation Barbarossa, when the USSR became an ally, Churchill sent Wilson to Russia "to advise Stalin on medical matters" and Wilson recommended Donald in his stead to the PM 'as the best of the younger generation'... 'first class', and one whom 'I would be happy to leave in charge of my own family'....^[49]

Donald was also consulted by Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Another of his grandsons (K) recalls Donald's memories of a shooting party at Mountbatten's Hampshire country home, Broadlands.

I remember him telling me that Lady Mountbatten was not present at the time so the duties of hostess to Lord Louis' guests that weekend fell to one of his daughters, who was VERY young at the time - about 6 or 8 years old, I think, Grandpa said. And how she had executed the role extremely well. WDW was MOST impressed! Am not sure when this was exactly or which daughter it was - Pamela or Patricia. (Probably Pamela, who was born in 1929, if this took place in 1935-37). Grandpa also said that prior to the embarkation of some naval mission or other - possibly the Dieppe Raid in 1942 ? - he had been consulted to determine whether Lord Mountbatten was physically fit enough to go. In spite of Donald saying that he was not, Lord Mountbatten went nonetheless.

In Philip Ziegler's 'Mountbatten' on page 211 the author writes :

In April 1943 his health cracked. While on a brief visit to Broadlands he contracted pneumonia. For two days he made light of it, then his temperature rose to 103° and remained there for several days. Mountbatten himself was convinced that his white blood corpuscles had multiplied alarmingly and that only treatment by the new wonder drug, penicillin, saved his life. The doctor who treated him observed no increase in the white corpuscles, and said that, anyway, penicillin had been administered in such small quantities as to make little difference. Mountbatten was naturally strong and recovered with rest and conventional treatment. Dr. Brooks, however, confirmed that Mountbatten was dangerously debilitated by overwork, and that if he had neglected his condition for another twenty-four hours he might well have died. It was several weeks before he was fully back to work and even then he was cutting short the convalescence recommended by his doctor. He learned by his experience, however, and never again neglected the early symptoms of disease....he treated his health with the utmost seriousness and summoned a doctor for causes that to others sometimes seemed trivial. It could be that the first serious illness since adolescence made an important contribution to the good health he enjoyed for almost all his life.^[50]

The war affected the family in other ways. Two years later, Donald was the second beneficiary in the will of his student friend and colleague Commander Surgeon Humphrey de Bohun Kempthorne, a physician at St Thomas’ Hospital, who was drowned on board the HMS Charybdis when it was torpedoed by German torpedo boat T23, under the command of Friedrich-Karl Paul.^{[51][52] [53] [54] [55]}

The following year, Donald was the first beneficiary in the will of his aunt, his mother’s eldest sister, Esther Charlotte Chambers née Swatton, who died on 28 Jan 1944. She left her estate to Donald and his brother Eric. ^[56]

Letter addressed to Dr Brooks, intercepted by the German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht during World War 2 - Courtesy - Nowell and Jeanne Donovan

The above letter from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, was sent to Dr Brooks during the war, intercepted by the Germans, opened, resealed, stamped, and somehow found its way to 96 Harley St, and eventually into Phyllis's stamp album.

On 3 June 1944, shortly before the Normandy Landings, Anne Prunella Brooks was born. By this time the family had moved back to London. They lived at 3, Kidderpore Avenue, NW3, between Hampstead Heath and Hampstead Cemetery. ^[57] At some point after Anne was born, they moved to a house called Shorne House (which was possibly rented) on Gravesend Road, near Shorne, 5.6 miles from Chatham, so that Donald could be close to his work at the Royal Naval Hospital in Chatham. Anne remembers, ‘It must have been quite a size as we also had a Navy Wren staying with us, who was recovering from some injury. Her name was Anne Munion; we called her ‘Mun Mun’, she eventually married a GP and became my Godmother.’

Textbook of Medicine

In the 1945 edition of the Textbook of Medicine by J. J. Conybeare, Surgeon Captain Brooks wrote the section on Pulmonary and Laryngeal Tuberculosis as well as other written contributions on Cardio-Vascular Wounds, Bronchiectasis, Bronchial Neoplasms, Asthma and Sarcoidosis. ^[58]All in all, he contributed to the Textbook of Medicine from 1940 until 1960. Donald was assistant registrar of the Royal College of Physicians from 1946 to 1949.^[16]

When the idea of a British National Health Service was being developed, Dr Brooks, who was initially against the idea, lent his support to Lord Moran's NHS proposals on condition that consultants would be allowed to keep private patients.

It was his (Moran's) powerful advocacy of the merit awards for consultants, based on quality of patient care, that was to make many of them finally accept the NHS and he played a major role in setting up the Spens Committee for Consultants and Specialists in 1948 which decided on the remuneration of hospital consultants, later chairing the government standing committee which set the payment of specialists from 1949 to 1961. Bevan later claimed that his success in gaining the support of consultants was ‘by stuffing the doctors’ mouths with gold’ though Moran’s pragmatism and willingness to compromise also played an important role as well as a willingness by the government to allow them to keep their prized independence and often lucrative private practices even under government control of the hospitals. ^[59]

In 1950, when the St Mary's Teaching Hospital Consultant Dr Denis Brinton^[60]

attached students to the hospital almoners to visit patients in their homes and introduced field trips to industrial centres and general practices....,

Donald, described as a conservative clinician by Elsbeth Heaman, is said to have objected to this push towards the development of innovative social medicine in state or public health. ^[61]

Stelling Minnis, E. Kent

The Cottage, Stelling Minnis

During the school summer holidays the family would go down to 'The Cottage'^[62] at Abbotswood, in Stelling Minnis, near Elham, Canterbury. The cottage had no electricity or running water.

What it did have was a pre-historic Denehole, into which the children threw their rubbish. There was a 'copper' for washing the clothes, and hot water for baths was scarce. Everyone used the same water, and Anne, as the youngest, was allowed to use the bath first. Donald was last.

As cooking and caring for a family of six during the holidays was too much work in a cottage without electricity, the children were given the task of cooking for the family and given 6d a week each with which to buy what they needed.

In 1956, Donald received the CBE, as Consulting Physician to the Royal Navy, in the Medical Birthday Honours List, and was accompanied by his younger daughter Anne, to Buckingham Palace.^[63]

Hampstead News - Thursday 7 June 1956

Dr. William Donald Sykeham (sic) Brooks, consulting physician to the Royal Navy, of Kidderpore Avenue,... also gets a C.B.E.^[64]

He continued to contribute to College affairs as a censor in 1961 and 1962, and in 1965 when he was also senior vice-president.^[16]

Donald turned down the invitation to become the President of the Royal College of Physicians, out of consideration for Phyllis, who was unhappy at the prospect of public appearances.

On 11 August 1966, the notice of the nuptials of Donald and Phyllis's elder daughter Jill appeared, with her portrait, by Bassano and Vandyk on the front cover of Country Life.

August 11, 1966 ...Miss Jill Brooks, elder daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. D. W. Brooks, of Two Acres, Storrington, is to be married to Dr. Anthony Macpherson Steel, only son of Dr. and Mrs. Harry MacPherson Steel of New England, Churchill, Oxfordshire, at Sullington Church on August 20. ^[65]

Retirement

He retired in 1970 and he and Phyllis moved to Storrington, West Sussex, where they bought an Edwardian house with two acres of garden, called, appropriately, Two Acres, on Fryern Rd. (Now re-named Swallow House). Their house was full of beautiful antique furniture, where the sound of the ticking of long case clocks and the scent of sweet peas from the garden would fill the rooms. In the hall, which led from the kitchen and breakfast room to the front hall, there was a little table on which stood a tiny ivory Buddha. The downstairs bathroom, where there were stacks of old D.L. Sayers and Margery Allingham penguin paperbacks on top of the corner cupboard, smelt of Wyberg’s pine essence and carbolic soap. On the walls in the downstairs loo were some old golfing prints. There was a water butt under a crab apple tree outside the kitchen door, and an outside loo with a dark brown wooden loo seat, (you always felt slightly unsure about sitting on it – perhaps because of the spiders which scuttled along the side of the walls) and a chain which you had to pull to flush the loo. The kitchen had black and white floor tiles, which may have been a copy of the black and white floor tiles at Harley St. There was a partial bamboo partition between the kitchen and breakfast room, and we used to sit on an oak chest to eat our cereal (those tiny Kellogg’s packets) from earthenware bowls. Nick's son Crispin made a tapestry of Harald Godwin with the arrow stuck in his eye at the Battle of Hastings, which was hung on the wall in the breakfast room.

Donald and Phyllis

While Phyllis accompanied their daughter Anne on the piano at singing recitals and spent time with her grandchildren, encouraging them in their educational development, Donald enjoyed cultivating rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas, and created a garden paradise which exists to today. When he wasn’t in the garden, or playing golf at the West Sussex golf club in Storrington, he would be watching cricket matches and smoking his pipe in his small study, the walls of which gradually turned the colour of yellow ochre. Ironically, for someone whose professional life was devoted to treating people with lung diseases, Donald was a lifelong smoker.

Death

He died of cancer, in Storrington, W. Sussex, on 28 May 1993. ^[66]

W. Donald W. Brooks

Who's Who 1992

^[67]

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Acknowledgements

Grateful thanks to Jeanne and Nowell Donovan for their generosity in providing the scans of the envelope/letter sent to Donald Brooks during the war. This letter was in Phyllis's stamp album, (once that of her mother, Mabel) sold on E-Bay via a seller in Nottingham, ending up in Fort Worth, Texas.

Further Reading

• CRAVER, E. (1986). Patronage and the Directions of Research in Economics: The Rockefeller Foundation in Europe, 1924-1938. Minerva, 24(2/3), 205-222. Retrieved May 2, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41820641 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/41820641?seq=1)
• https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/william-donald-wykeham-brooks
• Wikipedia contributors. Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. April 9, 2021, 15:20 UTC. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Horder,_1st_Baron_Horder&oldid=1016877889.
• https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aYLaImXXNZcJ:https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/02-Brooks.pdf+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=de&client=firefox-b-d
• https://books.google.de/books?id=QofKahwUOVoC&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=submarine+Tuberculosis+WW2&source=bl&ots=hRjAAzjiVQ&sig=ACfU3U2rpQzSSd4XRFYszg-w2POeI7tg_w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio0OqypqjwAhWwgP0HHVeoDCgQ6AEwD3oECAUQAw#v=onepage&q=submarine%20Tuberculosis%20WW2&f=false
• https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/real-life-battleships-game-ww2-german-uboats/
• https://books.google.de/books?id=tJLBQgHh3lcC&pg=PA584&lpg=PA584&dq=Britain+submarine+%22Tuberculosis%22+war&source=bl&ots=8qOg7NOJUg&sig=ACfU3U3QIWZvSk8PbTbgQoEH7UAqFrcWJg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP_f-hqKjwAhUJrKQKHb0YD78Q6AEwBnoECAUQAw#v=onepage&q=Britain%20submarine%20%22Tuberculosis%22%20war&f=false
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014107680109400813
• Artificial intelligence and algorithms: pros and cons | DW Documentary (AI documentary) For information on how AI is changing the way pathologies are diagnosed: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0dMTAQM4cw)

Publications

• BROOKS W.D.W., DAVIDSON M, THOMAS CP, ROBSON K, SMITHERS DW. Carcinoma of the bronchus; a report of the first five years' work of the Joint Consultation Clinic for Neoplastic Diseases of the Brompton Hospital and the Royal Cancer Hospital. Thorax. 1951 Mar;6(1):1-16. DOI: 10.1136/thx.6.1.1.
• BROOKS W.D.W., Pulmonary heart disease. British Heart Journal. 1948 Apr;10(2):83-87.
• BROOKS W.D.W., HEASMAN MA, LOVELL RR. Retinitis pigmentosa associated with cystinuria; two uncommon inherited conditions occurring in a family. Lancet (London, England). 1949 Jun;1(6565):1096-1098. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(49)92135-2.

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• Pencillin Man: Brown, Kevin., (2005)., The History Press, 15 Sept 2005. Retrieved from Google Books (Here;) Accessed 11 Jan 2022.
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