Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Bradford's Illness: Local Investigations
- 2 Woolsorters' Disease, Anthrax and Bradford Publics
- 3 Beyond Bradford: Anthrax across Britain
- 4 Compensating and Protecting: Anthrax and Legislation
- 5 Practices, Techniques, Therapies: Anthrax on the Continent
- 6 Global Connections: Turkey, Australasia and International Exchange
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Introduction
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Bradford's Illness: Local Investigations
- 2 Woolsorters' Disease, Anthrax and Bradford Publics
- 3 Beyond Bradford: Anthrax across Britain
- 4 Compensating and Protecting: Anthrax and Legislation
- 5 Practices, Techniques, Therapies: Anthrax on the Continent
- 6 Global Connections: Turkey, Australasia and International Exchange
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
The ravages made by the disease somewhat recently named ‘woolsorters’ disease' in and around Bradford have during the past month or two attracted considerable attention, and although inquiries of a public character have been held as to the origin and effects of the disease, the number of victims has not in any way decreased.
Just after noon on 22 July 1880, James Greenwood, a forty-nine-year-old woolsorter based in a factory around five miles west of Bradford, left his work early after complaining of a slight cold and ‘aching pains in his bones’. Greenwood went to bed when he returned home, but by the next morning his condition had worsened substantially. His anxious wife sent for a local medical practitioner, Dr Jackson, but by the time Jackson arrived to examine his patient at around ten o'clock in the morning, Greenwood was ‘in a state of collapse’. Shortly afterwards, and fewer than twenty-four hours after leaving his work, James Greenwood was pronounced dead, leaving behind his wife and seven children. Following his death, two other local doctors – John Henry Bell and John Spear – conducted a post-mortem examination of the body and declared that the cause of death was woolsorters' disease. Spear took samples of blood and sent them to William Smith Greenfield of the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution in London for microscopic analysis.
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- The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875–1920Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014