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Paper, 'Note on protection in anthrax' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge

Reference number: PP/10/38

Date: 1887

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Wooldridge writes: 'Hitherto in the few cases in which protection against zymotic disease has been found possible, it has been effected by the communication to the animal of a modified form of the disease against which protection is sought. I have succeeded in protecting rabbits from anthrax by an altogether different process, and although this is scarcely, at present, of practical utility, it may perhaps be found to be of some interest as regards the general nature of protection in this and other diseases depending on micro-organisms.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Pathology

Received 16 April 1887. Read 28 April 1887. Communicated by Edward Emanuel Klein.

A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on protection in anthrax'.

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PP/10/38
Earliest possible date
1887
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge, Paper, 'Note on protection in anthrax' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge, 1887, PP/10/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_10_38/paper-note-on-protection-in-anthrax-by-l-c-leonard-charles-wooldridge, accessed on 16 June 2026

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