Yellow Fever

Abstract Chief Surgeon with the 7th Army Corps in Cuba. He studied yellow fever with Walter Reed and remained in Cuba as a sanitary officer until 1909. From then until 1917, Kean was assistant to the Surgeon General of the Army, a position he had also held from 1902 to 1906. He was named Director General of Military Relief and Deputy Chief Surgeon of the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I. General Kean retired from the army in 1924. A great friend and supporter of Reed's, he...

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Biography of S. M. Bemiss, a Kentucky physician who later served in the Confederate army, taught at the Universities of Louisville and Louisiana, edited the New Orleans medical and surgical journal, and served as chairman of the Yellow Fever Commission and the committee on contagious diseases of the National Board of Health.

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Reports gathered by Nicolas Chervin on experiences with yellow fever in Caribbean and eastern United States ports.

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Taylor was a microbiologist, public health official and Director of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division. His specialty was arboviruses. In 1951 at the age of 65 he helped establish a program at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-3) in Egypt to study mosquito- and tick-borne viruses and their transmission cycles. Collaborating closely with Telford Work and others, their work helped eradicate yellow fever and identified the West Nile virus.

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The papers of Telford H. Work (1921-1995) highlight international research and teaching in the field of arbovirology and tropical disease. The collection, which spans from 1938-1990, contains material about his education, career, hobbies, and achievements.

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Collection of background research materials and copies of original Lyster manuscript materials from other repositories gathered by Stephen Craig during the creation of his biographical article about Lyster. Lyster served under William Gorgas in Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone, was head of the aviation medical corps during WWI, and was a director of the Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Commission. He was an ophthalmologist in private practice.

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Reprints on yellow fever, malaria and other tropical diseases presented to William C. Gorgas.