She had a varied scientific career beginning in the 1890s in which she investigated the impact of various factors on bodily function, from chemical stimulation to work and the menstrual cycle, culminating in a post as researcher to Britain's Industrial Fatigue Research Board in the 1920s.
In the 1890s, she collaborated with Augustus Waller at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London on the electrical effects produced in the heart by chemical stimulation.
Waller praised the 'undivided attention and great neatness' of her work, and noted that 'Many of the most successful records have been obtained for me in my absence.
[4] At the suggestion of Ewald Hering, she studied the non-medullated nerve, culminating in a solo publication which was communicated to the Royal Society by Waller on her behalf.
[8] These were Florence Buchanan, Winifred Cullis, Ruth Skelton, Sowton, Constance Leetham Terry and Enid Tribe.