Correspondence of Drs. Philip S. Hench and Vernon W. Lippard regarding the placing of a wreath by Dr. Hench honoring Walter Reed, John J. Moran, and Major Jefferson R. Kean at the dedication in Havana, Cuba of the "Camp Lazear National Monument, site of the successful experiment against yellow fever

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Correspondence of Drs. Philip S. Hench and Vernon W. Lippard regarding the placing of a wreath by Dr. Hench honoring Walter Reed, John J. Moran, and Major Jefferson R. Kean at the dedication in Havana, Cuba of the "Camp Lazear National Monument, site of the successful experiment against yellow fever" [manuscript] 1952-1953.

Also newspaper clippings and Dr. Hench's account covering the event and his article, "Walter Reed and the Conquest of Yellow Fever."

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Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950

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Sanitary Advisor to the Cuban Provisional Government. From the description of Papers and correspondence of Gen. Kean's army career and tenure as Sanitary Advisor to the Cuban Provisional Government regarding Order of Indian Wars, Seventh Army Corps, 1898-1900 [manuscript] 1898-1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970591 Surgeon and Army officer. From the description of Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean [manuscript] 1897-1950. (University of Virg...

Moran, John Jude

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Lippard, Vernon W., 1905-....

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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...

Hench, Philip S. (Philip Showalter), 1896-1965

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Physician, medical researcher and writer, Nobel Prize winner. From the description of Papers of Philip Showalter Hench [manuscript] 1915-1964. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647995538 From the description of Papers of Philip Showalter Hench [manuscript] 1903-64. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647965926 Philip Showalter Hench was a physician most closely related to the Mayo Clinic. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 28, ...