Braddon, William Leonard (1861-1935)

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Two autograph letters from Braddon, Mount Beryl, Seremban, Federated Malay States, on headed note-paper, dated 6 Oct 1910 and 23 Feb 1911 (4 and 2 pp., 4to, written on rectos only), to Sir Charles James Martin, including one diagram, and annotated by Martin: in the first seeking Martin’s “powerful aid in clearing up perhaps the final point in the etiology of beri beri”, and in the second continuing discussion of beri-beri and sending the enclosed pamphlet:
W Leonard Braddon (author of "The Cause and Prevention of Beri-beri") HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR of the Straits Settlements and SCIENTIFIC POACHERS: The Discovery of the Cause of Beri-Beri A Disease which has cost $9,000,000 and 100,000 lives! ITS SUCCESSFUL PREVENTION. It still costs a quarter of a million annually, but may be prevented for nothing! A Great Sanitary Reform needed and a little Justice (Riberio & Co Ltd, Singapore [1911]) 
Also 
W L Braddon and E A Cooper, "The influence of the total fuel-value of a dietary upon the quantity of vitamine required to prevent beri-beri (preliminary communication)", British Medical Journal, 20 Jun 1914 
Dr B C P Jansen and Dr W F Donath, 'Isolation of Anti-beriberi-vitamin", Mededeelingen van den Dienst der Volksgezondheid in Ned-Indie 1927 Part I [annotated, probably by Martin, or possibly Harriette Chick]

Braddon, William Leonard (1861-1935)

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