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IN MEMORIAM 
ADELCHI NEGRI. 
Born 16 July, 1876 at Perugia. 
Died 19 February, 1912 at Pavia. 
(With Portrait, Plate VI.) 
It is with great regret that we record the early death of Adelchi 
Negri, for a career full of promise has been cut short and his loss is one 
that will be felt far beyond the confines of Italy. 
Negri was born in Perugia on the 16th of July, 1876, being the only 
child of Professor Cav. Raffaele Negri by his wife Emilia nee Almici. 
He pursued his medical studies in Pavia where he became (qualified in 
1900 being afterwards assistant to Golgi at the Pathological Institute. 
In 1905 he became libero docente in general pathology. On the 16th 
of September, 1905, he married Signorina Lina Luzzani who shortly 
before had graduated in medicine in Pavia. In 1908 he was made 
Professor of Microbiology in the University of Pavia, a position he 
occupied until his death which took place on the 19th of February, 1912. 
He left no children. His talented widow and his aged parents, the 
latter now residing in the Province of Brescia, survive to mourn his 
loss. 
Negri’s earlier publications (1899-1902) relate to the structure of 
the red blood-corpuscles, the origin of blood platelets, the cytology of 
gland cells in mammalia and the changes undergone by blood elements 
during coagulation. In these papers he already showed his ability as 
an original investigator. In 1910 he published a paper upon cell 
regeneration in parathyroid glands. 
It was, however, in 1908 that Negri published his first contribution 
to the study of rabies, a disease with which his name will always 
remain associated. To all who are familiar with this disease the 
“ Negri bodies” will be equally familiar, for, dating from his initial 
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