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PROF. H. P. HIMSWORTH, who succeeds Sir Edward Mellanby as secretary of the Medical Research Council, has been into 1939 professor of medicine in the University of London and director of the medical unit at University College Hospital. It was from this Hospital that he quaslified in 1928, obtaining the in both the M.B. and M.D. examinations. After holding the usual resident appointments, he started research into the mechanism of diabetes mellitus. The value of this work was recognized by the award of the Julius Mickle Fellowship by the University of London in 1935, and the results of his investigations were summarized in the Goulstonian Lectures, which he gave to the Royal College of Physicians in 1939, and in the Oliver Sharpey Lectures delivered last spring. During the War, his interest turned to the study of liver disease, using both the clinical and experimental approach. He has done outstanding work on the relation of nutrition to the causation of liver disease, differentiating clearly, in man and in the experimental animal, between the various types of degeneration and chronic fibrosis in the liver. His Lowell Lectures, which he gave in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1947, formed the basis of his monograph on diseases of the liver. He has also worked extensively on the treatment of thyroid disease with the new anti-thyroid compounds. In 1948, Prof. Himsworth was elected a member of the Medical Research Council, a body which he had already served in many capacities, for
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Prof. H. P. Himsworth. Nature 163, 986 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163986b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163986b0