Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff (1860-1930)

Private diary from 2 January to 25 October, 1930: containing a detailed account of his health in the last week of his life: in English. Author's holograph MS. Some entries are in red ink. The last is dated 3.20 p.m. October 25th 1930: he died next day. Produced in Lausanne [etc.].

1930

1 volume 34 pp. + 5 pp. + 27 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 40 pp. + 1 bl. l. tall 12mo. 7 × 151/2 cm. Unbound. Written in a loose-leaf note-book, with string ties.

Purchased 1936.

The author was a Doctor of Science at Odessa University in 1884, and professor of physiology at Geneva in 1888. He worked with Pasteur in Paris from 1889 to 1893, and from 1893 to 1915 he was with the government of India, where his most celebrated researches and discoveries as a bacteriologist enabled him to find an antidote to cholera and plague.

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).