Yellow fever miscellany collected by Dr. Philip S. Hench[manuscript, 1879-1942.

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Yellow fever miscellany collected by Dr. Philip S. Hench[manuscript, 1879-1942.

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Clippings, reprints, and broadsides concerning the experiments of Walter Reed and Jesse W. Lazear with yellow fever, and the part played by John J. Moran and John R. Kissinger. Included is a newsclipping describing the Memphis Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.

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Moran, John J. (John Joseph), 1876-1950

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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...

Kissinger, John R.

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