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Date de parution
15 mai 2024
Nombre de lectures
1
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9781837721252
Langue
English
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1 Mo
In 1880, Griffith Evans, an army veterinary surgeon in India, made the seminal discovery that blood parasites – then universally considered benign – were pathogenic. Spurned by peers and colleagues, his conclusions from experiments with diseased horses were acknowledged by Koch and Pasteur, but it took many years before his achievement received general recognition.
The son of a farmer near Tywyn, Meirionnydd, Evans was commissioned as a veterinary officer in the Royal Artillery. He was first posted to Canada where, in his spare time, he qualified in medicine. An irrepressible adventurer, he visited North America during the Civil War, meeting Abraham Lincoln and touring the Union front line.
Evans’s talent for engagement with people and cultures characterised his life in Canada and in India. During a long and productive retirement in north Wales, he immersed himself in local and national affairs. At his centenary in 1935, Evans received the accolades of his profession, community and family, dying peacefully in his hundredth year. Since that time, his name has faded into obscurity.
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PREFACE
PROLOGUE
FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION
THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE AND BRIDGNORTH
WOOLWICH – THE ROYAL ARTILLERY
THE GREAT EASTERN
MONTREAL
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
AT THE FRONT
HOME, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
INDIA
KATIE
SURRA ON THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER
BANISHMENT TO THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY
RETURN TO BRITAIN – UNHAPPY YEARS
NORTH WALES AND RETIREMENT
‘I KNEW I SHOULD BE PROVED RIGHT’
‘ENJOYING A LONG SUNSET’
CENTENARIAN
EPILOGUE
NOTES
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Date de parution
15 mai 2024
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781837721252
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
