Abstract
WE extend our congratulations to Dr. Griffith Evans, who will attain his hundredth birthday on August 7. Dr. Evans was a pioneer in the study of protozoology in connexion with infections, and the first man to associate trypanosomes with the production of disease. He was born at Tymawr, near Towyn, Merionethshire. After studying medicine for a short time with a medical practitioner at Towyn and Aberdovey, he entered the Royal Veterinary College, London, where he qualified as M.R.C.V.S. In 1877, he was sent to India in the Army Service Corps. It was there that his great work on blood parasites was carried out. On arrival in India, he was appointed to investigate an endemic disease which for many years had been fatal to cavalry and artillery horses “$ by microscopic examination of the blood, which revealed the specific bacillus in the blood of every patient, Evans at once proved the disease to be anthrax fever.
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