letters (correspondence)
Found in 6940 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Walter Reed to James Carroll, September 24, 1900
Reed discusses the mosquito as the vector for yellow fever and the amount of evidence necessary to prove this hypothesis.
Letter from Walter Reed to James Carroll, September 9, 1898
Reed suggests several methods to determine whether patients have typhoid or malarial remittent fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Letter from Walter Reed to James Carroll [partial copy], September 26, 1900
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, September 3, 1902
Reed writes a satirical letter concerning the appointment of the new Surgeon General, staff changes, and Kean's new position.
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, May 23, 1901
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, June 5, 1901
Reed considers Durham's work on a bacillus. Although there is no work for the Yellow Fever Board in Cuba at present, he advises Kean to maintain Camp Lazear. Reed discusses immunization against yellow fever.
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, September 24, 1901
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, November 5, 1901
Reed relays news of additional candidates for Surgeon General. He believes Kean should be Surgeon General instead of himself because he is concerned about his age.
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, September 6, 1900
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, September 25, 1900
Reed discusses the probability of a mosquito vector for yellow fever. He regrets his absence from Cuba. He will not experiment on himself, and anticipates a publication on the etiology of the disease.
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, August 22, 1896
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, August 10, 1896
Reed writes concerning experimentation. He describes his return from Key West, and mosquito attacks.
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, November 11, 1896
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, April 23, 1898
Reed writes about field service in the Spanish War. He worries over his son's enlistment plans. Sternberg has proposed keeping all non-immune medical officers out of Cuba.
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, May 10, 1898
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, February 23, 1899
Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, April 2, 1899
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Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, April 24, 1900
Letter from Walter Reed to Jennie Carroll, September 7, 1900
Reed notifies Jennie Carroll of James Carroll's improved condition.
Letter from Walter Reed to Joseph B. Brown, September 2, 1874
Reed accepts an invitation to appear before the U.S. Surgeon's Examining Board, and explains that he would have responded sooner had he not contracted a fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]