In 1971 Stanley Plotkin asked me about Maladie de Bradford of which I knew nothing.  However when I returned to Bradford I discovered that my first room at the old technical college had been the very room used by Eurich for his researches in 1900.   For the centenary of the letter published in the local paper which prompted the work on anthrax, I organised a town meeting in 1978 and wrote an account for The New Scientist.   Authors for The Cambridge world history of human disease ed K.F.Kiple, 1993 were allowed few references: this account is one of only 8 for anthrax.