Physicians

Hench inquires into the health of Kissinger who suffered a debilitating stroke.

Hench describes Cooke's participation in the yellow fever experiments and thinks he deserves recognition.

[Hench] reports that Rojas has discovered receipts that prove the site of Camp Lazear. [Hench] would like to buy the site and the building remains for restoration.

Hench discusses the ethics of having his yellow fever talk reprinted and distributed by the Wyeth Company. A note by Hewitt on the second page states that he sees no ethical problems with publication.

Hench requests from the Academy of Sciences the microfilm of Finlay's daybooks written during the yellow fever investigation. He indicates that he would not be able to complete his book without knowing the contents of these daybooks.

Hench informs Spies that the dedication of Camp Lazear will be held on Finlay's birthday and “Physicians' Day” in Cuba. He has made his concerns known to Nogueira that Finlay will dominate the affair and that Camp Lazear will be renamed “Parque Finlay.” He suggests Spies visit Camp Lazear when in Cuba to see how the work is progressing.

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]

Thomas writes about a yellow fever epidemic in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1862.

Amador congratulates Kean on his review of the Gorgas biography. He discusses his own plans to write a popular history of the yellow fever story for Panama.

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

Maury forwards Kelly a book on the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, as well as journal references. Maury contacts Lena Warner, a yellow fever survivor, for her recollections.

Cowley indicates that Hench's letter of April 30, [1940] to Recio has been forwarded to him.

Dickinson proposes an alteration to the text of Kelly's book concerning Brooklyn Hospital. Dickinson provides a quotation from the hospital minutes of 1871 regarding Walter Reed's appointment.

O'Reilly requests that Reed be ordered to Fisher's Island, New York, to investigate an outbreak of typhoid fever among the troops. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Matas provides references on yellow fever, and gives information on his own work and experience with the disease.

Blue writes that anti-malarial work in Newport News, Virginia, is to be continued under Griffitts. Carter is to inspect work at Quantico with LePrince.

Sparkman encourages the printing of several thousand copies of “The Etiology of Yellow Fever” so that the people of the Gulf Coast can be informed of the mosquito theory. Sparkman realizes that it is very important that the yellow fever issue be cleared up, as there are numerous variant theories about the cause of yellow fever.

Mead, on behalf of the Merchants' Association of New York, expresses support for the Carroll and Lazear pension bills.

Avery lists resolutions adopted by the Medical Association of the Isthmian Canal Zone upon the death of Henry Carter.

Gunn reports on a vaccine shipment and on new cases of yellow fever in the Ivory Coast.