Honor Mildred Vivian Smith (13 November 1908 – 18 January 1995) was an English neurologist who specialised in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis.
[1] She began working for Hugh Cairns's neurosurgery unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1943,[2] where she started her lifelong body of research on meningitis.
She undertook a research fellowship at the Boston Children's Hospital with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1948; she received an MD in the same year after returning to Oxford.
In 1959, she travelled to Morocco at the request of the World Health Organization to investigate an outbreak of paralysis that was discovered to be caused by contamination of cooking oil with orthocresyl phosphate.
[2] She was appointed OBE in 1962 for her work on the treatment of tuberculous meningitis and was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1965.