David Livingstone

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David Livingstone

Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/4356
Date: 2008-02-04

Abstract:

Missionaries, such as David Livingstone, travelling in Africa, were among the first to encounter the many African diseases of livestock during their travels. Livingstone, in 1857, is wrongly credited with the first report of anthrax in Southern Africa. The first was J.E. Alexander in 1838.

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Black/white photo. Original document size: (w)4.74 x (h)7 cm. Original scanned size: 178 kb JPEG, 600 dpi. Final web-ready size: 25.21 kb. Estimate download time: 10 sec. @ 28.8 kbps. Original TIFF file housed at the Dept. Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria. Metadata assigned by Prof. RC Tustin, Professor Emeritus: DVTD. His academic and professional experience includes: veterinarian for 54 years, senior lecturer at UP for 7 years, head of Department at UP for 17 years and Veterinary Council for 3 years.

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