Joseph J. Kinyoun papers, 1899-1939.

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Joseph J. Kinyoun papers, 1899-1939.

Contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and reprints relating primarily to Kinyoun's service in San Francisco as director of the Marine Hospital Service's efforts to combat bubonic plague. Also includes Kinyoun's own reprints and some later clippings on Henry Rose Carter and the H.R. Carter Laboratory.

0.4 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7620555

National Library of Medicine

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United States. Marine Hospital Service

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Kinyoun, Joseph J. (Joseph James), 1860-1919

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Born in East Bend, N.C., on 25 November 1860, Joseph James Kinyoun was raised in Centre View, Missouri. After studying for a year at the St. Louis Medical College, he attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his M.D. degree in 1882. He also studied at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, receiving a Ph.D. degree from the latter in 1896. He joined the Marine Hospital Service in 1886 and the following year established in a one-room laboratory on Staten Island, N.Y., t...

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). ...