Editing Howard Florey (section)

=== London Hospital ===
Florey was unhappy working at London Hospital; he disliked the long daily commute from [[Chobham]] that put his experimental work at the mercy of the railway timetable. In the summer Howard and Ethel lived in a flat in [[Belsize Park]] so he could devote more time to his work. He wrote up the results of the research he had done in New York on [[lacteal]]s and [[lymphatic capillaries]], which was published in the ''[[Journal of Physiology]]'' in 1927.{{sfn|Macfarlane|1979|pp=146–150}}<ref>{{cite journal |first=Howard |last=Florey |title=Observations on the Contractility of Lacteals – Part I |journal=The Journal of Physiology |issn=0022-3751 |date=12 January 1927 |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=267–272 |doi=10.1113/jphysiol.1927.sp002357 |pmid=16993848 |pmc=1514841 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Howard |last=Florey |title=Observations on the Contractility of Lacteals - Part II |journal=The Journal of Physiology |issn=0022-3751 |date=7 June 1927 |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1113/jphysiol.1927.sp002375 |pmid=16993861 |pmc=1514918 }}</ref>

Florey then embarked on writing a thesis for a fellowship at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], where he became an unofficial fellow in 1926.{{sfn|Macfarlane|1979|pp=146-150}} His thesis on "Physiology and pathology of the circulation of the blood and lymph" was accepted, and his fellowship awarded in 1927.{{sfn|Abraham|1971|p=259}} He also continued his work on the secretion of [[mucus]]. London Hospital's facilities for the laboratory animals he needed for his research were unsatisfactory, so these experiments were carried out at Oxford and Cambridge. However, he was able to study the lacteals in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.{{sfn|Macfarlane|1979|pp=146–150}}