Google celebrated the 131st birth anniversary of British Haematologist Lucy Wills with a doodle. It was during her visit to India to research that she discovered what went on to be known as the "Wills Factor".
About:
Who is she? Lucy Wills was a leading English haematologist who conducted seminal work in India in the late 1920s and early 1930s on macrocytic anaemia of pregnancy.
Legacy: Wills’ analysis of prenatal anaemia changed the world of preventive prenatal care for women.
Wills Factor:
Wills travelled to India to research a form of life-threatening anaemia which afflicted pregnant woman in Bombay.
She initially suspected the cause to be poor nutrition but later, in an experiment, discovered that when the laboratory monkey was fed a certain British breakfast spread made of yeast extract its health condition improved.
This came to be known as the “Wills Factor”. Research on the experiment later proved that the factor was folic acid which is since being recommended to pregnant woman everywhere.
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