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Box 25

 Container

Contains 111 Results:

Walter Reed & Yellow Fever. Chronology of the Yellow Fever Work in Cuba,  circa 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 61
Identifier: 02561001
Scope and Contents

This is an outline, organized chronologically, of Kean's experience with the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  circa 1901

Requisition and Estimate for Insular Funds,  February 26, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 62
Identifier: 02562001
Scope and Contents

Kean requests funds for Camp Lazear. Included is a note by [Truby]. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  February 26, 1901

Military orders relating to Aristides Agramonte, 1901

 File — Box: 25, Folder: 63
Identifier: uva-lib:2224812
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 1901

Military orders relating to James Carroll, 1901

 File — Box: 25, Folder: 64
Identifier: uva-lib:2224818
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 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

 File — Box: 25, Folder: 65
Identifier: uva-lib:2224824
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 1901

Reports from the Yellow Fever Commission to Adjutant General in Charge of Civil Affairs, Havana, Cuba, 1901

 File — Box: 25, Folder: 66
Identifier: uva-lib:2224835
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 1901

Incomplete list of fever charts, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 67
Identifier: uva-lib:2224844
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: 1901

List of U.S. Army Hospital Corps personnel at Camp Lazear,  circa 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 68
Identifier: 02568001
Scope and Contents

This is a list of twelve U.S. Army Hospital Corps members who were stationed at Camp Lazear.

Dates:  circa 1901

Surgeon General's office record card for Walter Reed, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 69
Identifier: 02569001
Scope and Contents

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]

Dates: 1901

Notes listing the volunteers for the yellow fever experiments,  circa 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 70
Identifier: 02570001
Scope and Contents

These three notes list the human-experiment volunteers who were exposed to fomites, infected by injections of blood, and infected by mosquitoes.

Dates:  circa 1901

Memoirs of a Human Guinea Pig,  circa 1901-1950

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 71
Identifier: 02571001
Scope and Contents

This is Moran's account of his experience with the Yellow Fever Commission as a human test subject.

Dates:  circa 1901-1950

This Busy World,Harper's Weekly, circa 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 72
Identifier: uva-lib:2224849
Scope and Contents

Information in the article relates to the 1901 Nobel Prize winners.

Dates: circa 1901

Military orders regarding Philippi Caldas and Angel Bellingaghi,  August 1, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518001
Scope and Contents

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]

Dates:  August 1, 1901

Military orders regarding Philippe Caldas,  August, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518013
Scope and Contents

Havard introduces Caldas, a Brazilian scientist who is coming to Havana for experiments on yellow fever.

Dates:  August, 1901

Letter from William Cary Sanger to Hugh L. Scott,  August 7, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518015
Scope and Contents

Sanger introduces Caldas, a Brazilian scientist who developed a yellow fever vaccine, to the Havana community. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  August 7, 1901

Letter from A. F. Xavier to Hugh L. Scott,  August 9, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518016
Scope and Contents

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]

Dates:  August 9, 1901

Letter from Raul R. de Amaral to the Military Governor of Cuba,  August 8, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518018
Scope and Contents

Amaral thanks the Military Governor of Cuba for his courtesy towards Caldas and Bellingaghi.

Dates:  August 8, 1901

Report from Valery Havard to the Adjutant General,  August 12, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518020
Scope and Contents

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]

Dates:  August 12, 1901

Letter from Philippe Caldas to Valery Havard,  August 29, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518023
Scope and Contents

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]

Dates:  August 29, 1901

Letter from Philippe Caldas,  July 31, 1901

 Item — Box: 25, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02518026
Scope and Contents

Caldas describes the process to obtain serum and vaccine for yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 31, 1901