Reminiscences of Rolla Eugene Dyer : oral history, 1962.

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Reminiscences of Rolla Eugene Dyer : oral history, 1962.

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History of Hygienic Laboratory, National Institutes of Health; establishment of Clinical Center; bubonic plague, pellagra and influenza field work; discovery of agent of typhus fever; increasing discretion allowed to scientist in research; continuing expansion of National Institutes of Health; relationship between Congress and the Public Health Service; Assistant Director, Hygienic Laboratory.

Transcript: 46 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Rolla Eugene Dyer : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122411715 Born in Delaware County, Ohio, Rolla Eugene Dyer earned his MD at the University of Texas in 1916. He immediately joined the Public Health Service. His field of interest was infectious diseases and he spent his first five years with the PHS working on bubonic plague in New Orleans. In 1921 he joined the Hygie...