Human Experimentation

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed and Blossom Reed, November 30, 1900

Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22

Identifier: 02222001

Scope and Contents

Reed expresses empathy for his wife's gout. He writes that the experimental camp is almost completed and will soon be ready for work.

Dates: November 30, 1900

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

Letter from Walter Reed to George Miller Sternberg, July 24, 1900

Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 64

Identifier: 02064001

Scope and Contents

Reed is astonished that yellow fever remains unrecognized at Pinar del Rio. He recommends measures taken to avoid an epidemic, and the use of human experimentation to study the disease.

Dates: July 24, 1900

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

Letter from Walter Reed to James Carroll, September 30

Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 39

Identifier: 02539001

Scope and Contents

Reed discusses Carroll's experiments, comments on Springer's involvement, and makes recommendations.

Dates: September 30

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

Letter from Walter Reed to James Carroll, September 24, 1900

Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 24

Identifier: 02124001

Scope and Contents

Reed discusses the mosquito as the vector for yellow fever and the amount of evidence necessary to prove this hypothesis.

Dates: September 24, 1900

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

Letter from Walter Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, September 25, 1900

Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 25

Identifier: 02125001

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: September 25, 1900

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

Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Albert E. Truby, January 2, 1936

Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 43

Identifier: 03343001

Scope and Contents

Sawyer inquires about the use of a rhesus monkey in Reed's yellow fever experiments. He questions the accuracy of the "Yellow Jack's" portrayal of Dean.

Dates: January 2, 1936

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

Letter from William C. Borden to Howard A. Kelly, March 16, 1905

Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 55

Identifier: 02755001

Scope and Contents

Borden provides details of the surgical operation for appendicitis that immediately preceded Walter Reed's death.

Dates: March 16, 1905

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

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Henry Rose Carter, December 13, 1900

Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 37

Identifier: 02237001

Scope and Contents

Reed's experiments have convinced Gorgas that the mosquito theory is valid. Gorgas discusses the implications for sanitation and non-immune troops.

Dates: December 13, 1900

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

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to John J. Moran, June 22, 1904

Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 24

Identifier: 02724001

Scope and Contents

Gorgas hires Moran as sanitary inspector for the Panama Canal Zone.

Dates: June 22, 1904

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

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Louis A. LaGarde, May 27, 1905

Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 10

Identifier: 02810001

Scope and Contents

Gorgas asks LaGarde, the superintendent of Ancon Hospital, to resign.

Dates: May 27, 1905

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

Letter from William D. Kelly to John J. Moran, March 8, 1938

Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 56

Identifier: 03456001

Scope and Contents

Kelly requests permission to display Moran's name in the credits of the M.G.M. motion picture “Yellow Jack.”

Dates: March 8, 1938

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of John J. Moran

Letter from William S. Thayer to Mabel H. Lazear, June 29, 1904

Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 24

Identifier: 00424001

Scope and Contents

Thayer believes that Lazear should receive credit for being the first to advocate the mosquito theory to the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates: June 29, 1904

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Winifred Lyster to Howard A. Kelly, June 28, 1907

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31

Identifier: 02931001

Scope and Contents

Winifred Lyster sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates: June 28, 1907

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter from W.S. Lemon to Philip Showalter Hench, July 31, 1937

Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 24

Identifier: 03424001

Scope and Contents

Lemon informs Hench of the honorarium offered to speakers by Sigma Xi and asks him to inform Moran that Sigma Xi will take care of him during his visit.

Dates: July 31, 1937