Sir Almroth Wright, 10 August 1861

Personal recollections of Sir Almroth Wright and Sir Alexander Fleming.

THE youngest, but one, of eight children of an Ayrshire farmer, Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield Farm, near Darvel, on 6th August, 1881. He received his first schooling at Loudoun Moor School and at the age of 10 he went to the village school at Darvel; two years later he continued his education at Kilmarnock Academy. At 14 years of age he joined an elder brother in London and attended t...

Paul Ehrlich and Almroth Wright

Ehrlich's days were filled with an excited, enthusiastic concentration on his scientific ideas and plans for research. He made three great contributions: (1) Invented modern cytological staining methods based on chemical affinities betwen dyes and cell structures; (2) His studies of Immunology won him a Nobel prize in 1908; (3) He invented scientific chemotherapy. In well-planned research he an...

Some account of the British military hospitals of World War I at Etaples, in the orbit of Sir Almroth Wright.

A group of British Military Hospitals was established between 1915 and 1918 along the estuary of the River Canche on the northern French coast. Their positions, now obliterated, can be identified from a plan of the time. With the growing realisation of the importance of bacteriology in the treatment of wound infection, the laboratory of Sir Almroth Wright in neighbouring Boulogne-sur-mer had a ...

Cover vol. 10, no. 4, August 2013

Persian-translation vol. 10, no. 4, August 2013