| Two doctors in London ---> Dr. Mary Walker | ||||
Dr. Mary Walker is shown (right) at work in St. Alfege's Hospital, Greenwich.
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Dr. Mary B. Walker (1888 - 1974) |
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to find out about the life and work of Dr. Mary Walker. Dr. Mary Walker and myasthenia gravis Dr. Mary Walker and familial periodic paralysis Summary of the life of Dr. Mary Walker Bibliography, suggested reading and acknowledgements
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| Dr. Mary Broadfoot
Walker was an Assistant Medical Officer at St. Alfege's Hospital, Greenwich, UK from
1920 to 1936. In that time, and using few resources, she was the first to demonstrate that
an hypodermic injection of physostigmine could (temporarily) reverse the
weakness of myasthenia gravis
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