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THOMAS SPENCER COBBOLD (1828-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 607 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:SPENCER See also:COBBOLD (1828-1886)  , See also:English See also:man of See also:science, was See also:born at See also:Ipswich in 1828, a son of the Rev . See also:Richard See also:Cobbold (1791-1877), the author of the See also:History of See also:Margaret Catchpole . After graduating in See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh in 1851, he was appointed lecturer on See also:botany at St See also:Mary's See also:hospital, See also:London, in 1857, and also on See also:zoology and See also:comparative See also:anatomy at See also:Middlesex hospital in 1861 . From 1868 he acted as Swiney lecturer on See also:geology at the See also:British Museum until 1873, when he became See also:professor of botany at the Royal Veterinary See also:College, afterwards filling a See also:chair of helminthology which was specially created for him at that institution . He died in London on the loth of See also:March 1886 . His See also:special subject was helminthology, particularly the See also:worms parasitic in man and animals, and as a physician he gained a considerable reputation in the diagnosis of cases depending on the presence of such organisms . His numerous writings include Entozoa (1864); See also:Tapeworms (1866); Parasites (1879); Human Parasites (1882); and Parasites of See also:Meat and Prepared Flesh See also:Food (1884) .

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