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. According to him the Enterobakteriengattung Salmonella was named.

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

1879 Salmon was one of the key figures of a government campaign to combat bronchopneumonia in cattle. Because of his contributions, he was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture, to investigate the occurrence of livestock diseases, especially of the Texas fever in the South. 1883 Salmon was commissioned a veterinary department at the Ministry of Agriculture in Washington, DC set up, which he headed until 1905.

From 1906 he taught at the invitation of the Government of Uruguay a Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Montevideo. After his return to the United States in 1910, he headed from 1913 in Butte, Montana, a production company for hog cholera vaccines. He died of pneumonia.

Work

In the time as head of the veterinary authority Salmon made ​​together with Theobald Smith many important contributions to veterinary medicine, such as the isolation of the pathogen of swine cholera, Salmonella choleraesuis in 1885. Too, Salmon and Smith showed that protect killed causative agent of this disease swine against this disease what was the basis for vaccination against typhoid. Salmon was also active in public health administration: Here he established guidelines for a national meat inspection of slaughtered animals and for the quarantine of imported animals.