Henri-Mamert-Onésime Delafond (13 February 1805 – 15 November 1861) was a French

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born in

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, Nièvre department. Delafond was one of the primary representatives of

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in France during the first half of the nineteenth century.Dictionnaire d'agriculture, encyclopédie agricole complète, Volume 2
by Jean Augustin Barral, Henry Sagnier He served as a professor and director of the Maisons-Alfort veterinary school. He was a member of the

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and of the Société nationale d'agriculture. Delafond is remembered for pioneer microscopic research of '' Bacillus anthracis'', the causative organism of anthrax. Also, with microbiologist

David Gruby David Gruby (20 August 1810 – 14 November 1898) was a Hungarian physician born in the village of Kis-Kér (now Bačko Dobro Polje, Serbia) to a Jewish farmer.Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, ''Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary My ...

(1810–1898), he performed extensive investigations of '' Tritrichomonas suis'', a parasite found in swine. In 1842 with

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(1797–1876) and Jules Gavarret (1809–1890), he was co-author of an important treatise on domestic animal blood composition titled ''Recherches sur la composition du sang de quelques animaux domestiques, dans l’état de santé et de maladie''. With Honoré Bourguignon, he published ''Traité pratique d'entomologie et de pathologie comparées de la psore ou gale de l'homme et des animaux domestiques'' (Treatise on the entomology and comparative

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of scabies affecting humans and domesticated animals).Google Books
Traité pratique d'entomologie et de pathologie comparées de la psore ou gale de l'homme et des animaux domestiques

References

The Approach of Comparative Biomedicine
by Andrew Hunt Gordon and Calvin W. Schwabe
Veterinary protozoology
by Norman D. Levine (essay on ''Tritrichomonas suis'') French microbiologists French veterinarians 1805 births 1861 deaths People from Nièvre {{France-biologist-stub