Daniel Elmer Salmon

Daniel Elmer Salmon

Daniel Elmer Salmon (born July 23, 1850 in Mount Olive , New Jersey , † August 30, 1914 in Butte , Montana ) was an American veterinarian . The enterobacteria genus Salmonella was named after him.

Life

After his school days in Mount Olive Salmon studied veterinary medicine from 1868 at Cornell University . After completing his studies, he settled in Newark , New Jersey in 1872 as a general veterinarian. For health reasons, he moved to Asheville , North Carolina shortly thereafter . He lectured in veterinary medicine at the University of Georgia and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1876.

In 1879 Salmon was a key figure in a government campaign to combat bronchopneumonia in cattle . Because of his merits, he was selected by the Department of Agriculture to investigate the incidence of farm animal diseases, particularly Texas fever , in the southern states. In 1883 Salmon was commissioned to set up a veterinary department at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC , which he directed until 1905.

From 1906, at the invitation of the government of Uruguay , he set up a department of veterinary medicine at the University of Montevideo . After his return to the USA in 1910, he headed a production company for the manufacture of a vaccine against swine cholera in Butte, Montana from 1913. He died of pneumonia .

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During his time as head of the veterinary authority, Salmon and Theobald Smith made many important contributions to veterinary medicine, for example the isolation of the pathogen causing swine cholera, Salmonella choleraesuis, in 1885. Salmon and Smith were also able to show that killed pathogens of this disease protect pigs from this disease what the basis for a vaccine against typhoid was. Salmon was also involved in the public health administration: Here he established guidelines for a nationwide meat inspection of animals for slaughter and for the quarantine of imported farm animals.

Web links

• Salmon at whonamedit.com (English)