Pleomorphism in bacterial protoplasm : a study in psittacosis / by Andrew Todd McClintock.

  • McClintock, Andrew Todd, 1885-1923.
Date:
1925
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Credit: Pleomorphism in bacterial protoplasm : a study in psittacosis / by Andrew Todd McClintock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    him and his father which amounted to adoration. Shortly after the father’s death Dr. McClintock confided to one of his note books these verses entitled “To My Father” : I am awaking. I have hardly lived. These many years in larval state Of parasitic childhood My soul was tissued To the pulse of winged you. While your wings were drooping, Your shell becoming less Straining at your earthly ties Enduring in distress, You wound me in a chrysalis Where, since you left, I’ve slept. But at last I’m stirring. Stirred by memories Of your selflessness and truth Of your fortitude and generousness, On your wings I’ll seek the highest air, Where you were wont to soar. Genealogically, Dr. McClintock was of Scotch-Irish forebears and of the best this country has. His grandfather, Hon. Andrew Todd McClintock, (1810—1892 A. B. Kenyon College, Princeton LL. D.), like the Doctor’s father a lawyer of large practice, the leader of his County Bar, a director of corporations, and a man of learning and culture, was the grandson of James McClintock of the town of Raphoe, Donegal County, Ireland, and the son of Samuel McClintock, (1776-1812), both of whom emigrated to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Here Samuel McClintock married Hannah Todd, the daughter of Colonel Andrew Todd, a Revolutionary soldier. Their son Andrew Todd McClintock (for whom, of course, Dr. McClin¬ tock was named) moved to Wilkes-Barre. In 1841 he married Augusta Cist, a daughter of Jacob Cist, of Wilkes-Barre. Andrew Hamilton McClintock was the only son of this marriage, the other children being daughters. Andrew Hamilton McClin¬ tock married Eleanor Welles, of Athens, Pennsylvania, from which marriage there were two children, Dr. McClintock and
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