Charles Armstrong Collection 1920-1972
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Leake, J. P. (James Payton), 1881-1973
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James Payton Leake, Jr. was born in Sedalia, Missouri in 1881. He was educated at St. Louis' Smith Academy and obtained his medical training at the Harvard School of Medicine in 1907. Leake joined the U.S. Public Health Service in 1909. By the mid-1910s, after assignment to the Hygienic Laboratory, he began researching smallpox. His work as an epidemiologist with the PHS focused primarily on smallpox and poliomyelitis. Dr. Leake developed a method of vaccination for smallpox and his guide "Quest...
Armstrong, Charles, 1886-1967
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Armstrong was an epidemiologist for the Public Health Service, specializing in studies of influenza, smallpox and polio. From the description of Charles Armstrong collection, 1920-1972. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 314602621 From the guide to the Charles Armstrong Collection, 1920-1972, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine) Charles Armstrong was an epidemiologist for the Public Health Service, specializing in studies of ...
United States. Public Health Service
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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...
