HJ Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003577
1855–1931 Australian-born British doctor who discovered the bacterial aetiology of brucellosis and the parasite responsible for cattle trypanosomiasis.
Keywords: brucellosis; Brucella melitensis; trypanosomiasis; Trypanosoma brucei; Glossina moristans
| Further Reading | |
| Bruce D (1887) Note on the discovery of a microorganism in Malta fever. Practitioner 39: 161–170. | |
| book Bruce D (1895) Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand. Durban: Bennett and Davis. | |
| Davies JNP (1962) The cause of sleeping sickness? Part II. East African Medical Journal 39: 145–160. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| (1932–1935) Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1: 79–85. | |
| book Royal Society of London (1903–1919) Reports of the sleeping sickness commission of the Royal Society, 1903–1912. London: HMSO. | |
| Vassallo DJ (1992) The Corps disease: bucellosis and its historical association with the RAMC. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 138: 140–150. | |
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