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Microbiology, including virology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

S. Selwyn  and
A. C. Wardlaw
S. Selwyn
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, Westminster Medical School (University of London), Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AR
A. C. Wardlaw
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Gil 6NU
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It is customary for textbooks on the history of science or of medicine to trace the origins of microbiology to the last quarter of the nineteenth century in France and Germany. Apart from mentioning Leeuwenhoek's observations in the 1670s, they virtually ignore the considerable amount of work which extends back to the sixteenth century. Much of this was, in fact, British, with Scots at home or abroad figuring prominently in the story (Selwyn 1974, 1976).

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 84: Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland , 1983 , pp. 267 - 293
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1983

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