Box 25
Contains 111 Results:
Walter Reed & Yellow Fever. Chronology of the Yellow Fever Work in Cuba, circa 1901
This is an outline, organized chronologically, of Kean's experience with the Yellow Fever Commission.
Requisition and Estimate for Insular Funds
, February 26, 1901
Kean requests funds for Camp Lazear. Included is a note by [Truby]. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Military orders relating to Aristides Agramonte, 1901
Military orders relating to James Carroll, 1901
Military orders relating to Rafael T. Echeverria, Robert P. Cooke, Royal M. Dean, Paul Hamann, Alfred W. Covington, Frank H. Edmunds, Alexander N. Stark, Roger Post Ames, James Carroll, Jefferson Randolph Kean, John S. Neate, Adolph F. Springer, Newell R. Colby, and John W. Ross, 1901
Reports from the Yellow Fever Commission to Adjutant General in Charge of Civil Affairs, Havana, Cuba, 1901
Incomplete list of fever charts, 1901
List of U.S. Army Hospital Corps personnel at Camp Lazear, circa 1901
This is a list of twelve U.S. Army Hospital Corps members who were stationed at Camp Lazear.
Surgeon General's office record card for Walter Reed, 1901
The record card explains Walter Reed's leave of absence for 1901, with reference to an unexplained absence from his post as member of the Army Medical Examining Board. The report also states that Reed is personally and professionally humiliated by this inquiry. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Notes listing the volunteers for the yellow fever experiments, circa 1901
These three notes list the human-experiment volunteers who were exposed to fomites, infected by injections of blood, and infected by mosquitoes.
Memoirs of a Human Guinea Pig, circa 1901-1950
This is Moran's account of his experience with the Yellow Fever Commission as a human test subject.
This Busy World
,Harper's Weekly, circa 1901
Information in the article relates to the 1901 Nobel Prize winners.
Military orders regarding Philippi Caldas and Angel Bellingaghi, August 1, 1901
These letters and supporting documents concern the request by Caldas and Bellingaghi to demonstrate their yellow fever serum. Included are translations from original Spanish letters and recommendations from Caldas and Tellez. Havard requests a medical commission to examine these claims. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Military orders regarding Philippe Caldas, August, 1901
Havard introduces Caldas, a Brazilian scientist who is coming to Havana for experiments on yellow fever.
Letter from William Cary Sanger to Hugh L. Scott, August 7, 1901
Sanger introduces Caldas, a Brazilian scientist who developed a yellow fever vaccine, to the Havana community. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Letter from A. F. Xavier to Hugh L. Scott, August 9, 1901
Xavier informs Scott that Caldas, inventor of a yellow fever serum, wants to conduct experiments in Havana. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Letter from Raul R. de Amaral to the Military Governor of Cuba, August 8, 1901
Amaral thanks the Military Governor of Cuba for his courtesy towards Caldas and Bellingaghi.
Report from Valery Havard to the Adjutant General, August 12, 1901
Havard reports on the claims of Caldas and Bellingaghi that they discovered a preventative and curative serum for yellow fever. Havard is skeptical because Caldas does not provide any information regarding his process of isolation and culture. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Letter from Philippe Caldas to Valery Havard, August 29, 1901
Caldas, in defense of his vaccine, outlines reasons for his diagnosis of septic fever rather than yellow fever for the volunteers who became sick after being infected with yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Letter from Philippe Caldas, July 31, 1901
Caldas describes the process to obtain serum and vaccine for yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]