Henry Rose Carter papers, 1899-1966.

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Henry Rose Carter papers, 1899-1966.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14317072

Contains contains letters, and drafts of letters, sent by Carter to Louis L. Williams, William Cabell Bruce, John Ross, and Jesse W. Lazear. Other correspondents are Walter Reed, Laura Carter, Melson Barfield-Carter, J.A. LePrince, and Louis L. Williams (letter of transmittal). Includes reprints, and the monograph, Yellow fever in Mississippi, 1878-1905; also personal recollections, experiences, reminiscences, autobiography, and history, by H.A. Gant.

1 MS. box (ca. 40 items)

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Carter, Henry Rose, 1852-1925

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Born in Caroline County, Virginia, Carter received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1879, the same year he joined the U.S. Marine Hospital Service. He rose to the rank of assistant surgeon general at large, in 1915. During his career Carter studied the epidemiology of malaria and yellow fever and became renowned as the developer of maritime quarantine. From the description of Henry Rose Carter papers, 1899-1966. (National Library of Medicine). ...

Lazear, Jesse William, 1866-1900

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The U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission (1900-1901) was a board of physicians that the U.S. government formed in order to determine how yellow fever was transmitted between hosts. Ultimately, the commission's experiments in Cuba proved that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever--a discovery that would spur successful campaigns to control and eradicate yellow fever throughout much of the globe. When Major Walter Reed and Acting Assistant Surgeons James Carroll, Aristides Agramon...

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...

Gant, Harris Allen, 1852-

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