Brown collection, 1921-1922.

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Brown collection, 1921-1922.

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Items belonging to Brown including his membership certificate in the Association of Military Surgeons and three photographs: personnel at the Algiers Naval Hospital (La.); a Public Health Service float in an Armistice Day parade; and Public Health Service Hospital 25 (Camp Logan) in Houston, Tex.

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Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8052783

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association Library

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Algiers Naval Hospital (New Orleans, La.)

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Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.

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The Association of Military Surgeons of the United States grew out of the Association of Military Surgeons of the National Guard of the United States. Conceived by U.S. military surgeon Nicholas Senn (1844-1908), it was formed at a meeting of 50 U.S. National Guard surgeons in Chicago on September 17, 1891. The association's stated purpose was "for the advancement of military and accidental surgery and all things pertaining to the health and welfare of the civilian soldier." To this end the Asso...

Public Health Service Hospital 25 (Houston, Tex.)

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Brown, Robert Dwight

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Surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service. From the description of Brown collection, 1921-1922. (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association Library). WorldCat record id: 70958806 ...