Edgar Crookshank
Edgar March Crookshank (2 October 1858 – 1 July 1928) was an English physician and microbiologist.
Biography
Crookshank studied at
On return from Egypt, Crookshank toured Europe in 1884 for further medical training. In Berlin, he visited the laboratory of
When he returned to London, Crookshank wrote a textbook, An Introduction to Practical Bacteriology Based on the Methods of Koch, which was published in 1886. Subsequent editions were published under differing titles in 1887, 1890 and 1896, and a French translation by H. Bergeaud was published in Paris as soon as 1886.[citation needed]
In 1885, Crookshank founded one of the world's first bacteriological laboratories for human and
Crookshank was also interested in the use of photography to study bacteria and published Photography of Bacteria in 1887, the first text in English devoted solely to the photography of bacteria.[2] In the introduction to this book he wrote that the photographs were "intended to convince scoffers of the essential truth of the new Science, that specific, often morphologically distinct, microorganisms were the cause of particular infectious diseases".
During this time he became interested in the study of infectious diseases in animals and in 1886 was awarded the chair of Comparative Pathology and Bacteriology at King's College London. In his new role he was asked to investigate an outbreak of cowpox in Lechlade, Gloucestershire.
His investigations led him to reconsider the use of
In 1894, Crookshank was appointed
Publications
- History and Pathology of Vaccination, Volume 1, ISBN 978-1-144-96409-0
- A Textbook of Bacteriology: Including the Etiology and Prevention of Infective Diseases and a Short Account of Yeasts and Moulds, Haematoza, and Psorosperms, ISBN 978-1-174-75161-5
- Photography of Bacteria, ISBN 978-1-4588-4154-4
- Manual of Bacteriology, ISBN 978-1-146-49003-0
References
- ^ Brought to light: photography and the invisible, Corey Keller, Jennifer Tucker, Tom Gunning; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; 2008
- ^ ISBN 978-0-226-48112-8.
Sources
- Professor Crookshank, Obituary, The Times, 3 Jul 1928.
- Mortimer, Philip P (1999). "The bacteria craze of the 1880s". The Lancet. 353 (9152): 581–584. .
- "Edgar March Crookshank, M.B." British Medical Journal. 2 (3523): 79. 14 July 1928. PMID 20774024.
Further reading
- Edgar March Crookshank (October 2007). Manual of Bacteriology. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-1767-9.
- Edgar March Crookshank (December 2009). History and Pathology of Vaccination – Vol. I. – A Critical Inquiry. Koteliansky Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4446-8304-2.
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