Adami, John George (1862-1926)

Material on bacteriology and pathology.

Presented by Mrs. Adami, 1927 (accession 45202)

Description compiled by Christopher Hilton based on those for individual items by Ross Macfarlane.

After being a student of Owen's College, Manchester, the author obtained his M.D. at Cambridge in 1892, having studied also in Germany and in France. In the same year he was appointed to the Chair of Pathology and Bacteriology at McGill University, Montreal. He was A.D.M.S. to the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in 1914-1918, and had been elected F.R.S. in 1905. [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).