Scrapbooks of clippings on diseases and work of the U.S. Public Health Service 1876-1914

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Scrapbooks of clippings on diseases and work of the U.S. Public Health Service 1876-1914

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Newspaper clippings pertaining to the work of the U.S. Public Health Service.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Wyman, Walter, 1848-1911

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U.S. surgeon general and physician. From the description of Walter Wyman correspondence, 1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981492 Physician. From the description of Letter, 1909, Nov. 6 : Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Cosmos Club. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35663783 ...

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...