Lucy Wills - Publications

Publications

Lucy Wills’s first learned paper was in 1914, on plant cuticles. There were a further two papers in the 1920s before she started her work in India. Four reports of her field and laboratory studies in India were published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research in 1930 and 1931. After her return to England, there were a number of further papers concerning her work on tropical macrocytic anaemia. A list of her main publications is set out below.

• Wills, L (1914), Plant Cuticles from the Coal-measures of Britain. Geological Magazine I 385–90
• Wills, L & Warwick, J (1924), The adenoid child: a histological and clinical study. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 17 No 66 162–9
• Pillman-Williams, EC & Wills, L (1929), Studies in blood and urinary chemistry during pregnancy: blood sugar curves. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 22 493–505
• Wills, L & Mechta, MM (1930), Studies in ‘pernicious anaemia’ of pregnancy. Part I Preliminary report Indian Journal of Medical Research 17 777–92
• Wills, L & Talpade, SN (1931), Studies in ‘pernicious anaemia’ of pregnancy. Part II A survey of dietetic and hygienic conditions of women in Bombay Indian Journal of Medical Research 18 283–306
• Wills, L & Mechta, MM (1931), Studies in ‘pernicious anaemia’ of pregnancy. Part III Determination of normal blood standards for the nutritional laboratory’s stock albino rat Indian Journal of Medical Research 18 307–17
• Wills, L & Mechta, MM (1931), Studies in ‘pernicious anaemia’ of pregnancy. Part IV The production of pernicious anaemia (Bartonella anaemia) in intact albino rats by deficient feeding Indian Journal of Medical Research 18 663–83
• Wills, L (1931), Treatment of ‘pernicious anaemia’ of pregnancy and ‘tropical anaemia,’ with special reference to yeast extract as a curative agent. British Medical Journal 1 1059–64
• Wills, L (1933), The nature of the haemopoietic factor in Marmite. Lancet 221 1283–5
• Wills, L (1934), Indian Journal of Medical Research 21 669
• Wills, L & Stewart, A (1935), British Journal of Experimental Pathology 16 444
• Wills, L & Clutterbuck, PW & Evans, BDF (1937), A new factor in the production and cure of certain macrocytic anaemias. Lancet 229 311–14
• Wills, L & Evans, BDF (1938), Tropical macrocytic anaemia: its relation to pernicious anaemia. Lancet 232 416–21
• Wills, L (1945), Nutrition surveys. London School of Medicine Magazine 6–7 NS 2–5