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Paper, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington

Reference number: AP/73/8

Date: 22 February 1897

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Edington communicates the results of experiments made in South Africa on the infectivity of the blood of animals affected with Rinderpest. The experiments were all made on cattle kept under conditions in which accidental spontaneous infection could with certainty be excluded. These experiments had been concluded in 1896, before the arrival of [Robert] Koch in South Africa, and their results had been communicated to him on his arrival.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Includes two plates of figures of bacteria in petri dishes.

Subject: Pathology

Received 22 March 1897. Read 3 June 1897. Communicated by Sir James Crichton-Browne.

A version of this paper was published in volume 61 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest. Preliminary communication'.

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AP/73/8
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22 February 1897
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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59 pages
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Alexander Edington

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Alexander Edington, Paper, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington, 22 February 1897, AP/73/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_73_8/paper-preliminary-communication-on-the-nature-of-the-contagium-of-rinderpest-by-alexander-edington, accessed on 18 May 2025

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