Records, 1910-1966.

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Records, 1910-1966.

Correspondence (1923-1931) between Ralph R. Parker, a special expert at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory and R.R. Spencer, a surgeon at the Hygienic Laboratory of the U.S. Public Health Service relating to the development of a vaccine for Rocky Mountain spotted fever; published papers (1923-1966) of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory; and miscellaneous reports and papers (1910-1925) of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory on Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

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Spencer, R. R. 1888-1982

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National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Rocky Mountain Laboratory

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In response to the widespread geographic distribution of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the Rocky Mountain Laboratory was established in Hamilton, Mont., in 1902 by the state of Montana for the Montana State Board of Entomology and the U.S. States Public Health Service. In 1928 a new building was constructed to serve the expanded work being done on Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The U.S. Public Health Service first leased and then purchased the building. In 1948, after a successful vaccine for the...

Parker, R. R. 1888-1949

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