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Cobbett, Louis, 1862-1947 (bacteriologist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1862 - 1947

Biography

Louis Cobbett studied at Trinity College Cambridge and St Thomas’ Hospital, returning to Cambridge in 1893 as Demonstrator in Pathology in 1893. The following year he became interested in diphtheria especially the production and effects of anti-toxin and culture of the diphtheria bacillus. With his student George Stuart Graham Smith, Cobbett studied the diphtheria outbreak in Cambridgeshire in 1900 tracing the spread of the disease by the examination of school and other contacts, the first large-scale study of its kind. Scientific investigator to the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis from 1902, in 1907 Cobbett was briefly Professor of Pathology in Sheffield and returned to Cambridge as lecturer in Bacteriology, Cambridge, 1908-1929.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Louis Cobbett: Antiquarian Notes and Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9273
Scope and Contents

Notes and papers, mostly relating to Cambridgeshire:

Dates: 1915-1939 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
 Fonds

Papers and glass plate negatives of Louis Cobbett

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10282
Scope and Contents

Contains:
Box 1 - Offprints of publications by Cobbett and others on diptheria and turberculosis, some annotated
Box 2 - Laboratory (2) and research (1) notebooks , correspondence and reviews of The Causes of Tuberculosis, publication by Cobbett
Box 3 - Lecture notes (6 folders)
Boxes 4-5 - Wooden boxes containing glass plate negatives (2 boxes)
Box 6 - Further material from the Department of Pathology.

Dates: 1893-1935
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library

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