May, Aylmer William (1874-1950)

“The isolation of a para typhoid bacillus from a drinking-water supply”. Johannesburg [1909]. In typescript with holograph additions and corrections. Some of the leaves are only narrow strips. This paper was published in the ‘Journal of the Royal Institute of Hygiene’, 1909.

1909

1 l. + 13 ff. folio. 31 x 21 cm

Presented 1931.

The author obtained his M.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1898, and was Principal Medical Officer for Northern Rhodesia 1908-1928. He served as Major in the R.A.M.C. both in the South African war 1899-1901 and in the First World War. [Cf. ‘Who was Who’, 1941-1950.]

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Cantlie Papers.