1861–1947 English bacteriologist who pioneered the technique of inoculation against typhoid.
Keywords: typhoid; war wounds; inoculation; fleming; vaccines
Wright, Almroth Edward
Claire EJ Herrick, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002962
| Further Reading | |
| book Wright AE (1904) A Short Treatise on Anti-Typhoid Inoculation: Containing an Exposition of the Principles of the Method and a Summary of the Results Achieved by its Application. Westminster, UK: Archibald Constable. | |
| book Wright AE (1913) The Unexpurgated Case Against Women Suffrage. London: Constable. | |
| book Wright AE (1942) The Pathology and Treatment of War Wounds. London: William Heinemann. | |
| book Chen W (1992) "The laboratory as business: Sir Almroth Wright's vaccine programme and the construction of penicillin". In: Cunningham A and Williams P (eds) The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine, pp. 245–292. Cambridge: CUP. | |
| book Colebrook L (1941–1950) "Sir Almroth Edward Wright". In: Wickham-Legg LG and Williams ET (eds) Dictionary of National Biography, pp. 976–978. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Colebrook L (1954) Almroth Wright: Provocative Doctor and Thinker. London: Heinemann. | |
| book Cope Z (1966) Almroth Wright. London: Thomas Nelson. | |
| Mummery RT (1947) Obituary. Sir Almroth Wright. Nature 159: 731–732. | |
| Obituary Notices of the Fellows of the Royal Society (1948–1949) 6: 297–314. | |
| Rosser Matthews J (1995) Major Greenwood versus Almroth Wright: contrasting views of ‘scientific’ medicine in Edwardian Britain. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 69: 30–43. | |
