Dunham, Edward K. (Edward Kellogg), 1860-1922

Bacteriologist and pathologist; professor at Bellevue College, N.Y.C.

Born New York City, 1860. Attended Harvard Medical School; researched cholera at Koch's laboratory in Berlin where he discovered the "cholera-red" reaction; worked for the Board of Health Commission in Boston and later became professor of pathology at the Bellevue Medical College of New York University. During World War I, he worked with Dr. Henry Dakin on antiseptic research and later was appointed chairman of the "Empyema Commission" for the study of disease in U.S. Army hospitals. Died 1922. After Edward's death his empyema research was published by Mary (Dows) Dunham and some of his colleagues.

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