Experimental investigations regarding the etiology of dengue fever : with a general consideration of the disease [and] A comparative study of tsutsugamushi disease and spotted or tick fever of Montana / by P.M. Ashburn and Charles F. Craig
Abstract
Two reports. Ashburn and Craig constituted the U.S. Army Board for the Study of Tropical Diseases for the Philippine Islands.
Dates
- 1906-1907
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)
Creator
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English
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Biographical Note
Percy Moreau Ashburn (1872-1940) was born in Batavia, Ohio. He received his M.D. degree from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1893. He joined the U.S. Army Medical Department in 1898. From 1899 to 1909 he was stationed in the Philippines where he helped organize the Army Board for the study of Tropical Diseases for the Philippine Islands. Ashburn was General Inspector of the Health Department in Panama from 1914 until 1917, when he was detached as Chief Medical Officer at Fort Benjamin Harrison. From 1919 to 1927 Colonel Ashburn headed the Division of Venereal Diseases in the Surgeon General's office, established the Medical Field Service School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and spent four years as professor of military hygiene at West Point. In 1927 Ashburn became Chief of the Library Division in the Surgeon General's Office and Librarian of the Army Medical Library. He held these positions until his retirement from the army in 1932. He was superintendent of the Columbia Hospital for Women from 1934 until his death.
Ashburn and Craig constituted the U.S. Army Board for the Study of Tropical Diseases for the Philippine Islands.
Collection Summary
Two reports: (1) Experimental investigations regarding the etiology of dengue fever is divided into five sections: Epidemiology, Etiology, Symptomatology, Diagnosis, and Treatment; (2) A comparative study of tsutsugamushi disease and spotted or tick fever of Montana is divided into seventeen sections which include History of both diseases, Etiology, Symptoms, Prognosis, Diagnosis, Prophylaxis, Treatment, and Case histories.
Abstract
Two reports. Ashburn and Craig constituted the U.S. Army Board for the Study of Tropical Diseases for the Philippine Islands.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Provenance
Unknown, c.1982.
Creator
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Experimental investigations regarding the etiology of dengue fever : with a general consideration of the disease [and] A comparative study of tsutsugamushi disease and spotted or tick fever of Montana / by P.M. Ashburn and Charles F. Craig 1906-1907
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Author
- HMD Staff; Jim Labosier
- Date
- 2003
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- 1.0
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