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Following the Great War both Edith and Florence were decorated for their service. Florence moved to Bournemouth to work at the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital and the Victoria Home for Crippled Children. Florence continued to attend national and local meetings, including the Bournemouth Division of the Dorset and West Hants Branch of the British Medical Association, the Wessex Branch of the British Institute of Radiology and the Royal Society of Medicine in London. Edith obtained a lecturing post in physics in the Household and Social Science Department at King’s College for Women in London and continued to promote the role of women in science and engineering.
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The most famous resident of Westbourne was the author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), who wrote Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde whilst living there.
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Actinotherapy: the use of chemically active (actinic) radiation for treatment. The term included ultraviolet radiation therapy but could also refer to light therapy and even the use of soft X-rays for skin radiotherapy .
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Graves’ disease is a common cause of an overactive thyroid gland and is often accompanied by bulging of the eyes, hence its alternative name of exophthalmic goitre.
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Pyorrhoea otherwise known as periodontitis is chronic dental infection. There was much interest at this time in chronic infections as the cause on many diseases.
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Radiotherapy may result in chronic inflammation with abnormal blood vessels and fibrosis.
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Thomas, A., Duck, F. (2019). Return to Civilian Life. In: Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16561-1_16
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