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DOWNES, Sir Arthur Henry

1 entries
  • 1997

Researches on the effect of light upon bacteria and other organisms.

Proc. roy. Soc. (Lond.), 26, 488-500, 1877.

Downes and Blunt were the first to demonstrate the bactericidal action of sunlight; they regarded the germicidal property of light as depending on oxidation.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › GENERAL PRINCIPLES of Infection by Microorganisms, THERAPEUTICS