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BY the death at Cambridge, on October 5, of Dr. Herbert Edward Durham both bacteriology and botany lose a distinguished discoverer. Durham was born in London in 1866. He was the son of A. E. Durham, senior surgeon to Guy's Hospital and a grandson of William Ellis, the economist. Educated at University College School and King's College, Cambridge, Durham took first class honours in Parts I and II of the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge in 1890, his medical qualification in 1892 and his F.R.C.S. in 1894. In 1894 he was appointed to a Gull Research Studentship and went to Vienna to work in Gruber's hygiene laboratory. There he and Gruber first directed attention in January 1896 to the diagnostic value of the agglutination of pathogenic organisms by the sera of animals immunized against them. Later in 1896 this test was applied by Widal for the diagnosis of typhoid fever. The reaction was known for a time as the Gruber-Durham reaction and later as the Widal reaction.
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LAPAGE, G. Dr. H. E. Durham. Nature 156, 742 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156742a0
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