Haffkine WM (1900)

On preventive inoculation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 65:252-271.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, Waldemar Haffkine,a Russian physician working in India, organized alternate allocation trials to test serum treatments for cholera and plague.

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Portrait(s)

 Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine (1860-1930)

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Other material(s)

Hawgood BJ (2007). Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, CIE (1860-1930): prophylactic vaccination against cholera in bubonic plague in British India. Journal of Medical Biography 15:9-19.