Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt. It depicts a scene from William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". The top left and right portions of the frame include excerpts from act V, scene IV of the play. From left to right, the characters are Julia, disguised as a page, Sylvia, Valentine, and Proteus, who is in love with Julia. Sylvia's father, the Duke of Milain, and a group of followers are present in the background. The painting was on display at the Royal Academy in 1851, then
Proteus OX19 German authorities for testing, authorities were convinced a typhus epidemic was burning through Rozwadów. The two Polish doctors used "Proteus" OX19 to save thousands of Poles and Jews. The 1979 "Night Trains" novel by Barbara Wood and Gareth Wootton is a fictionalized account of the "Proteus" story, with names of characters, locations, etc. altered. Proteus OX19 "Proteus" OX19 is a strain of the "Proteus vulgaris" bacterium. In 1915, Arthur Felix and Edward Weil discovered that "Proteus" OX19 reacted to the same human immune antibodies as typhus, so developed the Weil-Felix test for typhus and other rickettsial diseases. Drs. Eugeniusz Lazowski