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WE regret to record the death at the age of forty, on March 2, of Dr. Guy Alfred Wyon, lecturer in pathology in the University of Leeds. “M. J. S.” has contributed an appreciation of life and work to the issue for March 15 of the British Medical Journal. Dr. Wyon graduated at the University of Edinburgh, and after some years in general practice and on service with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the War, he joined the staff of the Department of Applied Physiology and Hygiene of the Medical Research Council, and was engaged with the late Prof. Benjamin Moore in the study of trinitrotoluene poisoning. By a series of experiments, many on their own persons, they were able to show the mode of entrance to the body of the poison and to devise practical means of protection. Later Dr. Wyon rejoined the Army, being finally in charge of a mobile bacteriological laboratory. In 1920 he joined the staff of the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology of the University of Leeds, and while there interested himself in the chemistry of bacterial growth and in the application of chemical methods to the investigation of disease.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 113, 502 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113502b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113502b0