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Box 26

 Container

Staff Only

Contains 105 Results:

Article fragment:The Military Government of Cuba,  March, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 68
Identifier: 02668001
Scope and Contents

Wood gives a history of the American occupation in Cuba and discusses the yellow fever outbreak and consequent investigation by Reed and Lazear. Article appears in “The Annals of the American Academy.” Only pages 16 and 17 are included.

Dates:  March, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

The Transmission of Yellow Fever, by Aristides Agramonte, May 30, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 69
Identifier: uva-lib:2224951
Scope and Contents

The work is critical of article by James Carroll which disputes Carlos Finlay's claim to proof of mosquito theory.

Dates: May 30, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Christopher Reed to [Jefferson Randolph Kean?],  May 31, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 70
Identifier: 02670001
Scope and Contents

Christopher Reed gives his account of Walter Reed's childhood.

Dates:  May 31, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from the Assistant Surgeon General to Aristides Agramonte,  June 3, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 71
Identifier: 02671001
Scope and Contents

Agramonte is informed that his contract as surgeon will terminate June 15, 1903.

Dates:  June 3, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from James Carroll to the Editor ofThe Journal,  June 26, 1903

 Item — Box: 26, Folder: 72
Identifier: 02672001
Scope and Contents

Carroll writes that Agramonte was not present at the meeting where self-inoculation was discussed by Reed, Carroll and Lazear. Furthermore, he was only informed about the results of the experiments when Reed was about to leave Cuba, in October of 1900. He maintains that Finlay should not be awarded credit for the discovery of the mosquito theory.

Dates:  June 26, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed