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[email protected] Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine INTESTINAL ABSORPTION A Witness Seminar held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, on 9 February 1999 Witness Seminar Transcript edited by D A Christie and E M Tansey Introduction by Sir Christopher Booth Volume 8 – September 2000 ©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2000 First published by the Wellcome Trust, 2000 The Wellcome Trust is a registered charity, no. 210183. ISBN 978 184129 017 1 All volumes are freely available online at: www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/wellcome_witnesses/ Please cite as: Christie D A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2000) Intestinal Absorption. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 8. London: Wellcome Trust. Key Front cover photographs, L to R from the top: Dr Derek Holdsworth Dr Peter Hanson, Dr Richard Boyd Dr Peter Williams, Professor Oliver Wrong Professor Ramsey Bronk, Professor Michael Gardner Lord Turnberg (chair), Professor Timothy Peters Dr Richard Boyd, Professor Ramsey Bronk Dr Sheila Callender (1914–2004), Professor Hermon Dowling Dr Roy Levin, Sir Christopher Booth Back cover photographs, L to R from the top: Professor Hermon Dowling, Sir Christopher Booth Professor Michael Gardner, Dr Peter Hanson, Dr Richard Boyd, Professor Ramsey Bronk Professor John Walker-Smith, Dr George Misiewicz Dr Michael Hellier Professor Roy Pounder Dr George Misiewicz Professor Oliver Wrong CONTENTS Introduction Sir Christopher Booth i Witness Seminars: Meetings and publications ii Transcript 1 List of plates Figure 1.