| Description | Headed 'Beri-beri' and commencing: 'Sir, If Science be the exact expression of facts accurately ascertained, then the leader which appeared in your column on "Tropical Research" in your issue of March 15 last...is unjust."
Braddon presses his claim as the originator of the idea and experiment linking beriberi with rice consumption and therefore he should be credited with the associated life-saving, 'which is not, however, the work of Drs Fraser and Stanton.'
Re-typed version of a letter published in the 'Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene', 15 May 1911. |