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Yellow Fever

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

George Miller Sternberg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 100
Abstract

Contains correspondence, documents, certificates, and printed matter. Correspondence consists chiefly of congratulatory letters on becoming Surgeon General, acknowledgments for reprints, and letters from senators and congressmen pertaining to promotion to grade of major general. Printed matter consists of book reviews and information relating to inventions of Sternberg.

Dates: 1861-1917
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Havana Yellow Fever Commission Reports

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 31
Abstract

Contains reports, correspondence, printed matter, and statistics (1856-79) on yellow fever. Some of the reports and correspondence are addressed to Stanford E. Chaille.

Dates: 1856-1879
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Medical leader of the nineteenth century : career of Dr. Samuel Merrifield Bemiss : in summary

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 454
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1969
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections