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Montana

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Emery A. Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 587
Abstract

Emery A. Johnson (1929-2005), American physician, administrator, and health advocate, devoted his career to improving the health needs of the country's Native American and Alaska Native populations. He was the fourth director of the Indian Health Service (I.H.S.), an Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, and a life-long supporter of allowing American Indians to take control of their own health care management.

Dates: 1938-2007

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

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 446
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

Mason V. Hargett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 533
Abstract

Mason V. Hargett contributed significantly to the field of tropical medicine with his work on the yellow fever vaccine, first with the Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil and then at the USPHS Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana. Hargett's research facilitated the introduction of a yellow fever vaccine produced without human serum.

Dates: 1932-1986 (bulk 1938-1946)

Thomas B. Marquis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 308
Abstract

Dr. Marquis practiced medicine in Montana, was with the U. S. Medical Corps during World War I, and became government physician on the Tongue River-Cheyenne Indian reservation. Because of his interest in Indian subjects he eventually gave up his medical practice and devoted full time to gathering historical data and writing.

Dates: 1906-1973 (bulk 1906-1936)