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The account of the Journal's first 53 years (Pattison, 1988), also reproduced in this issue, closed by noting the interruption of publication brought about by wartime exigencies and the death in 1941 of its founder and owner, Sir John McFadyean (Fig. 1). The present article considers the further development of the Journal from that time to the present day, a period of 65 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article presents a historical perspective on veterinary anatomic pathology in the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth century to the present. Prior to World War II, the specialty was a rather general one that also included bacteriology and parasitology and was only slightly affected by strong Germanic developments in cell and tissue pathology. The few notable figures of this era include John McFadyean, Sidney Gaiger, and J.
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November 2006
Health Protection Agency, Microbiology Department, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester, United Kingdom.
Campylobacter species recently emerged as a leading cause of acute diarrhea in humans, but it is not generally known that these species were first cultured from samples from aborting ewes as far back as 1906. This took place in the United Kingdom during a study that spanned several years of epizootic abortion in cattle and sheep. The chief investigator in this major undertaking was John McFadyean, a little-known yet remarkable man who founded veterinary pathology in Britain and who made immense contributions to public health.
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