Major-General Sir David Bruce

dc.contributor.otherARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-05T10:48:38Z
dc.date.available2019-11-05T10:48:38Z
dc.date.issued1931
dc.descriptionScanned image of a photographic glass-plate negativeen_ZA
dc.description.abstractDavid Bruce (1855-1931), Scottish bacteriologist and parasitologist, was the only son of David Bruce and his wife Jane Hamilton. In 1884 he was posted to Malta as an army surgeon and two years later discovered the bacterial cause of Malta fever. In 1894 he was send to the British garrison in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Colony. The governor of Natal, Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson arranged for his secondment to investigate nagana among cattle in Zululand. Captain Bruce and his wife spent from November 1894 to January 1895 at Ubombo, north-east of Lake St Lucia. During this period he found that nagana was caused by a blood parasite. After his return to Pietermaritzburg the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon of Natal, H. Watkins-Pitchford arranged for Sir Bruce to be seconded to the Allerton Laboratory (opened during the first half of 1898), where they started an investigation into African horse sickness (Source: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science)en_ZA
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dc.description.sponsorshipDigitised by the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019en_ZA
dc.format.extent1 photo : black and whiteen_ZA
dc.format.mediumPDFen_ZA
dc.format.mediumOriginal medium: Glass-plate negativeen_ZA
dc.identifier.otherPE25
dc.identifier.other33a
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/72136
dc.relation.ispartofHistoric glass plate category - Historicalen_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofHistoric glass plate category - Allertonen_ZA
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dc.subjectVeterinary scienceen_ZA
dc.subjectGlass negativeen_ZA
dc.subjectMicrobiologisten_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican trypanosomiasisen_ZA
dc.subjectNaganaen_ZA
dc.subjectTrypanosoma bruceien_ZA
dc.subjectAllerton Laboratoryen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- Historyen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- Photographsen_ZA
dc.titleMajor-General Sir David Bruceen_ZA
dc.typeStill Imageen_ZA

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