Walter Reed and yellow fever / by Howard A. Kelly.

  • Howard Atwood Kelly
Date:
1906
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Credit: Walter Reed and yellow fever / by Howard A. Kelly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE gress m Havana, February, 1901, 161—Return of Reed and Carroll to the United States, 163—Proph- ecy by General Sternberg as to the nature of the spe- cific germ of yellow fever, 164—Experiments of Loeffler and Frosch in the foot and mouth disease of cattle, 164—Carroll’s return to Cuba to continue experiments, 165—Experiments showing that the specific germ of yellow fever is, in all probability, ultra-microscopic, 166—Obligations of the Yellow Fever Commission and of the world at large to Major General Leonard Wood, Governor of Cuba, 172. Chapter VIII: Practical Application of THE Mosquito Theory Extermination of yellow fever in Havana by Reed’s methods, 174—Extermination of yellow fever in Laredo, Texas, by Reed’s methods, 180—^Advis- ability of martial law during the extermination of an epidemic, 187—Extermination of yellow fever in New Orleans in 1904, described by Dr. J. H. White, 188; by Mr. Ru]^ert Boyce, 194—Compara- tive table of deaths from yellow fever in New Or- leans during different epidemics, 196—Reed’s views on quarantine regulations against yellow fever, 197. 174 Chapter IX: Value of Reed’s Work to THE World ..... 202 Epidemic of yellow fever at Philadelphia, in I793> 203; extract concerning it from published account by Mathew Carey, 204; extracts from published ac- count by Dr. Benjamin Rush, 209—Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn., 215; extracts concerning it from published account by J. M. Keating, 216, 218—Generosity throughout the United States to the sufferers in Memphis, 222—^Work of the How- ard Association, 223—Epidemic of 1878 in Gre- nada, Miss., described by Mrs. Lena Warner, 225
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