Harriette Chick Papers
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Table of Contents
Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3
Historical or Biographical Note.................................................................................................................... 4
Collection Scope and Content Summary...................................................................................................... 4
Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................5
Subject Headings........................................................................................................................................... 5
Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 6
Series 01: Correspondence, Photographs, and Obituary Notices...........................................................6
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Summary Information
Repository
EBL Manuscripts Collection
Creator
Chick, Harriette, Dame, 1875-1977
Title
Harriette Chick Papers
Date [inclusive]
1948 - 1977
Extent
0.5 Cubic feet
Abstract
Biographical material relating to British nutritionist Harriette Chick. Dr.
Chick was best known for her research on vitamins and rickets during the
first half of the twentieth century. Material includes: correspondence with
E. Neige Todhunter; reprints, obituaries, and photographs.
Preferred Citation
Harriette Chick Papers. Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, Nashville, TN.
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Historical or Biographical Note
Dame Harriette Chick (1875-1977) was an investigator and author, and she was considered a founder of
the scientific study of nutrition. Dr. Chick is best known for her Vienna rickets studies, 1919-1922. She
also did important research on beriberi, pellagra, and B vitamins.
She received her DSc from the University College of London in 1904. She then became a member of
the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine in London, an organization she was involved with from
1905-1975. At the Lister Institute she worked with Sir Charles Martin and developed the Chick-Martin
test for the efficiency of disinfectants.
In 1918 she was elected to the Physiological Society. She served as Secretary of the Accessory Food
Factors Committee of the Medical Research Council from 1918-1945. She also acted as Secretary of the
League of Nations Health Section Committee on the Physiological Bases of Nutrition from 1934-1937.
Dr. Chick was also a founding member of the Nutrition Society in 1941. Later she was president of the
Nutrition Society from 1956-1959. In 1949 she became Dame of the British Empire.
Collection Description
Biographical material relating to British nutritionist Harriette Chick. Dr. Chick was best known for
her research on vitamins and rickets during the first half of the twentieth century. Material includes:
correspondence with E. Neige Todhunter; reprints, obituaries, and photographs.
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Administrative Information
Publication Information
EBL Manuscripts Collection 2004-10-28
Notes about Access to this Collection
All collections are subject to applicable VUMC privacy and confidentiality policies. Collection specific
restrictions: No Restrictions.
Reproduction Rights
Copyright is retained by Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections.
Subject Headings
Personal Name(s)
Chick, Harriette, Dame, 1875-1977
Todhunter, E. Neige, (Elizabeth Neige), 1901-1991
Subject(s)
Nutrition
Nutrition--history
Physiology
Ricketts
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Correspondence, Photographs, and Obituary Notices
Collection Inventory
Series 01: Correspondence, Photographs, and Obituary Notices
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Obituary notice -London Times -"Dame Harriette Chick" 11 July 1977.
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Personal Letter from Harriette Chick to "Dear Miss Todhunter 22 Jan., 1949.
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Harriette Chick & Ellen M. Delf -July, 1919--Anti-Scorbutic Value of Dry
& Germinated Seeds.
Harriette Chick & Ellen M. Delf -July, 1919--Anti-Scorbutic Value of Dry
& Germinated Seeds.
Harriette Chick & Margaret Hume Accessory Food Factors Committee,
Work of -(Reprint) 1956
Harriette Chick & Margaret Hume Reprint from the Lancet, August 12,
1933 -Current Theories of Aetiology of Pellagra -Johns Hopkins, Baltimore
Harriette Chick & Margaret Hume Reprint from the Lancet, August 13,
1932 -Relation of Ultra-Violet Light to Nutrition
Harriette Chick & Margaret Hume, Foodstuffs Suitable for Army Rationing,
for Prevention of (A) Beriberi and (B) Scurvy -Feb. 1917
Harriette Chick (Reprint from Nutrition, Spring, Vol. XI) 1957 -Protein in
Nutrition
Harriette Chick, Royal Society of Arts Diet and Climate... (Cantor Lectures)
Jan. & Feb. 1935
Obituary Notice -British Journal of Nutrition Vo. 39, pp. 344, 1977. "Dame
Harriette Chick".
(Handwritten) References to Dr. T's "visit" with H. Chick in Cambridge
Personal Letter from Harriette Chick to Dr. Todhunter. 15 Feb., 1949
(Handwritten) -signed "Yours Sincerely, Harr. Chick"
Postcard form Harriette Chick to Dr. Todhunter. Dated: 17 Jan., 1948.
(Handwritten) "Lister Institute, Cambridge,"
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Correspondence, Photographs, and Obituary Notices
Reprint: (Inscribed: "Dr. Todhunter- with compliments") Harriette Chick &
E. Margaret Hume; authors Sept., 1919 Notes...on Nutrition and Accessory
Food Factors.
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