He published papers on diseases of children[1] and on the "treatment of pulmonary phthisis by antiseptic vapours".
[3][4] The father of the three brothers was the obstetrician Robert Lee, who held the chair of midwifery at St George's Hospital.
[1] At the beginning of his career, he was appointed as a physician to Marylebone's Western General Dispensary[6][7] and as a lecturer on forensic medicine and pathology at the Westminster Hospital.
He was also appointed to London's Hospital for Sick Children (later renamed Great Ormond Street Hospital) as an assistant physician with eventual promotion to full physician.
[6] In 1874[2] he delivered the Goulstonian Lectures[8][9][10] [11][12][13] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.