Albert Ernest Truby papers 1898-1954

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Albert Ernest Truby papers 1898-1954

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Lt. Albert Truby worked with Walter Reed's yellow fever experiments at Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Reed, Walter, 1851-1902

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Born in Gloucester County, Va., Walter Reed received an M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1869 and another M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1871. He joined the Army Medical Corps in 1876. Reed served in many areas throughout the country, including Fort Lowell, Az., and Baltimore, before becoming professor of bacteriology at the Army Medical School in 1893. During the Spanish-American War he sought a cure for typhoid fever in Cuba. After the war, he remained in Cuba with the Y...

Truby, Albert E. (Albert Ernest), 1871-1954

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Albert E. Truby (1871-1954) was born in Otto, New York. He attended Cornell University before earning his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. When the Spanish American War began, he joined U.S. Army Medical Corps as assistant surgeon in 1898. Although not a member of the Yellow Fever Board, Truby assisted Walter Reed in his quest for the cause of yellow fever at the Columbia Barracks in Cuba. From 1903 to 1916, Truby was stationed in San Francisco, Cuba, the Philippines and ...