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HANKIN, Ernest Hanbury (1865 – 1939)

HANKIN, Ernest Hanbury (1865 – 1939)

1865 – 1939

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Priya Lall & Co., Agra (studio) · Cambridge Antiquarian Society portrait collection. CAS H62. Photographed by Priya Lall & Co., Agra, India. c. 1900. Obtained courtesy of Dr J.D. Pickles, Honorary Librarian, Cambridge Antiquarian Society (via email February 2014). · Public domain

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1896 CE

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L'action bactericide des eaux de la Jumna et du Gange sur le vibrion du cholera.

HANKIN, Ernest Hanbury (1865 – 1939)
HANKIN, Ernest Hanbury (1865 – 1939)

Hankin described the antibacterial activity of a then-unknown source in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers in India. He noted that "It is seen that the unboiled water of the Ganges kills the cholera germ in less than 3 hours…