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  • Cicely Williams and kwashiorkor

    Sue ReevesRoehampton, London, UK Cicely Delphine Williams (1893–1992) has been described as achieving  the ‘physician’s dream’1 by diagnosing, identifying the cause, and finding a prevention and a cure for a disease.2  The disease she identified was kwashiorkor, a severe form of protein-energy malnutrition, fatal if not treated promptly.  Williams was the first woman to recognize…