Talk:Almroth Wright

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I believe someone may have changed the reference to "Scientific American"

The point that was made earlier was not whether or not he wrote in scientific magazines, which he undoubtedly did, but that his principles of medicine where being rediscovered about 50 years after he died, and nearly a century after he stated them.

The dangers which now lead to a global increase in infections in some cases could have been avoided.

After one of his followers, Sir Alexander Fleming, discovered peniccilin, antibiotics became a panacea for all ailments, and germs that resist antibiotics are now making it increasingly harder to combat diseases.

This is in fact, the reason that he is still remembered. Not for what he once did, but for what medicine could STILL learn from him.

DanielDemaret 00:13, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Article contains plagiarism

The introductory paragraph to this article has been lifted almost word-for-word from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (2004) entry on Almroth Wright. I suggest it be deleted immediately and someone should start over with a new introduction. It is remarkable that this text in the Wikipedia has existed at least going back to 2005 without detection.

E. B. article starts out as follows: "British bacteriologist and immunologist best known for advancing vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines (prepared from the bacteria harboured by the patient) and through antityphoid immunization with typhoid bacilli killed by heat." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.160.143.176 (talk) 23:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Very nice catch! I've removed this material and we'll need to write a new intro. Feel free to delete any other portions of the article that are plagiarized. I'm looking now to see who added this. Zachlipton (talk) 23:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm just a passer-by here. I have no idea if other parts of the article might have been plagiarized, possibly from other, less well-known sources. The first paragraph just stuck out like a sore thumb, though. Good luck.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.160.143.176 (talk) 23:24, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Signature

I've made a vectorized signature from this CV. AFAIK, the JPG is under copyright but free access - so is the signature eligible for upload at WC? The CV was written 1930/31 and Wright died in 1947, so the copyright will anyway expire in 2 years time in countries with "70 years after death" copyright laws. Vivrax (talk) 15:21, 24 November 2015 (UTC)