Mair Eleri Morgan Thomas

[...]began her medical journey, which took her from medical school to a house officer post in ear, nose, and throat medicine at the Royal Infirmary, where she slept in a side ward, as doctors had banned her from the mess residence as a woman, and nurses from the nurses' home, as a doctor. Developments in electron microscopy made it clear to her that the epidemic pale stools she had written about in Edmonton children in 1952 represented the steatorrhoea of viral diarrhoea. 1 She researched mycoplasma, collecting samples from cervical smears at East Ham Town Hall, the beginning of a lifetime interest, resulting in her recognition "for her commitment" in 1998 by the International Organisation for Mycoplasmology.