Almroth Wright

Sir Almroth Edward Wright was born in 1861.

He was one of the giants of the medical world in the late 19th and early 20th century.

In 1902 he started working at StMary’s Hospital Medical School, Praed Street, London. He is mostly known as a bacteriologist. He managed to get 10 million vaccines for the troops in Northern France during World War I.

Following in his footsteps at St Mary's, Sir Alexander Fleming later discovered penicillin.

Wright warned early on that this kind of remedy would create resistant bacteria, something that has proven an increasing danger nearing the end of the century, and making his thoughts on medicine influential yet again, long after his death.

He proposed that Logic be introduced as a part of medical training. This was never adopted.