Apr 27, 2006 - Sale 2077

Sale 2077 - Lot 85

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(MEDICINE.) WELCH, WILLIAM. Two Autograph Letters Signed, to Walter Reed, the first a lengthy letter regarding changes to Reed's manuscript to protect it from the anti-dissectionists and the second giving him the ingredients for a solution to preserve mosquitos for histological study. Lengths vary, 8vo sheets, personal stationery. Baltimore, 4 May 1901; 21 July 1901
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Welch (1850-1930) noted pathologist and long-time professor at Johns Hopkins, is credited with discovering the staphyloccocus epidermidis albus and its relation to wound infections.