Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame Harriette Chick NPG x86700

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Chick's major discovery was the nutritional origins of diseases and the use of vitamins and light for their treatment. Awarded a place to study at the Institute for Hygiene in Vienna, Chick's research included methods of measuring disinfectants and the nature of proteins. In 1905, despite strong resistance, the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine changed it's 'men only' admission policy so that Chick was permitted to study. After 1913, her research became framed by the outbreak of World War I, looking at treatments for diseases... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.