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Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine Records
Collection
Identifier: MS C 212
Abstract
The Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Incorporated (GMITP) was founded in 1921 and was named after William C. Gorgas. Gorgas was a U.S. Surgeon General and was known throughout the world as the conqueror of the mosquito and the malaria and yellow fever it transmits. His pioneer efforts in halting an epidemic of yellow fever enabled the United States to complete the Panama Canal. Its mission was to create a health education program to train researchers in tropical...
Dates:
1899-1992
Stanhope Bayne-Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C 155
Abstract
Subjects include family background, education, service in World War I and II, Dr. Bayne-Jones' association with the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Dates:
1852-1969
Walter Reed Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C 48
Abstract
Correspondence, reports, orders, illustrations, and blueprints primarily addressing Reed's study of typhoid fever in from the Spanish American War until 1900.
Dates:
1888-1972
William Crawford Gorgas Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C 119
Abstract
Reprints on yellow fever, malaria and other tropical diseases presented to William C. Gorgas.
Dates:
1890-1918
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- Tropical Medicine 2
- Yellow Fever 2
- Bacteriology 1
- History of Medicine 1
- Malaria 1
- Military Medicine 1
- Panama 1
- Panama Canal Zone 1
- Pathology 1
- Public Health 1
- Typhoid Fever 1
- World War I 1
- World War II 1 + ∧ less
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