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Lucy Wills, Marmite, and the discovery of folic acid

Lucy Wills, Marmite, and the discovery of folic acid

Lucy Wills was an English physician who graduated from Cambridge in 1928 and went to work at the Haffkine Institute in Bombay in the early 1930s. She was particularly interested in a severe and often fatal anaemia affecting pregnant women in the Bombay textile mills. The condition was puzzling.

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