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George Rainey

bap. 1801 d. 1884

Anatomist and microscopist. Detected the minute parasites, known as ‘Rainey’s capsules’, found in muscles.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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