Onésime Delafond

Onésime Delafond
Onésime Delafond (1805-1861)
Born	1805
Died	1861
Nationality	France
Fields	veterinarian
Institutions	Maisons-Alfort veterinary school
Known for	Bacillus anthracis blood composition

Henri-Mamert-Onésime Delafond (1805 – 1861) was a French veterinarian born in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Nièvre department. Delafond was one of the primary representatives of veterinary science in France during the first half of the nineteenth century.^[1]

He served as a professor and director of the Maisons-Alfort veterinary school. He was a member of the Académie de Médecine and of the Société nationale d'agriculture.^[1]

Delafond is remembered for pioneer microscopic research of Bacillus anthracis, the causative organism of anthrax. Also, with microbiologist David Gruby (1810–1898), he performed extensive investigations of Tritrichomonas suis, a parasite found in swine.

In 1842 with Gabriel Andral (1797–1876) and Jules Gavarret (1809–1890), he was co-author of an important treatise on domestic animal blood composition titled Recherches sur la composition du sang de quelques animaux domestiques, dans l’état de santé et de maladie. With Honoré Bourguignon, he published Traité pratique d'entomologie et de pathologie comparées de la psore ou gale de l'homme et des animaux domestiques (Treatise on the entomology and comparative pathology of scabies affecting humans and domesticated animals).^[2]

References

• The Approach of Comparative Biomedicine by Andrew Hunt Gordon and Calvin W. Schwabe
• Veterinary protozoology by Norman D. Levine (essay on Tritrichomonas suis)

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Persondata
Name	Delafond, Onesime
Alternative names
Short description	French veterinarian
Date of birth	1805
Place of birth	Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye
Date of death	1861
Place of death