Ethel Browning née Chadwick (1891–1969) was a medical researcher who specialised in

dietetics A dietitian, medical dietitian, or dietician is an expert in identifying and treating disease-related malnutrition and in conducting medical nutrition therapy, for example designing an enteral tube feeding regimen or mitigating the effects of ...

and

toxicology Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating ex ...

. She wrote many papers and 12 books, including ''Toxicity of Industrial Organic Solvents'' which became the standard reference on the subject. She was appointed as an official inspector of factories from 1940 to 1958 and continued as a consultant into her seventies. She was born in Bury on 16 March 1891, went to school in

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and then studied medicine at the

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where she was a Roger Lyon Jones scholar, won the Holt and Kanthack medals and the university prize for medicine.

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1891 births 1969 deaths Alumni of the University of Liverpool Dietitians Factory inspectors British toxicologists {{toxicology-stub