# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-broadfoot-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:44:36.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-broadfoot-walker"
name: "Mary Broadfoot Walker"
slug: "mary-broadfoot-walker"
description: "Mary Broadfoot Walker was a Scottish physician who first demonstrated the effectiveness of physostigmine in the treatment of the condition myasthenia gravis, a disease relating to muscle weakness. She was also the first to recognise the association between familial periodic paralysis and low blood potassium levels."
tagline: "British physician (1888–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Broadfoot_Walker_1920s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1888-04-17"
deathDate: "1974-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.805508
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "مارى ووكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Broadfoot_Walker"
    title: "Mary Broadfoot Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "مری برادفوت واکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Walker"
    title: "Mary Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Broadfoot_Walker"
    title: "Mary Broadfoot Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3296254"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump