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Tropical medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 724 Collections and/or Records:

Yellow Fever Experiments,  September 2, 1901

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 10
Identifier: N6310075
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench primarily consists of materials relating to Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1879 to around 1960 with the bulk of the items dating from 1900 to 1954. These items include, but are not limited to the following: correspondence of...
Dates:  September 2, 1901

Yellow Fever: Fifth Zone, North West Coast of Mexico, 1919-1922,  January 1, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 16
Identifier: 01016002
Scope and Contents

This is a detailed report on yellow fever work in Mexico. Topics discussed include: the history of yellow fever in the area, recent epidemics and public health efforts at mosquito control and vaccination.

Dates:  January 1, 1923

Yellow Fever in Ceara,  circa 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 4
Identifier: 01004005
Scope and Contents

[Hackett's] report to the International Health Board traces the history of yellow fever in Ceara, Brazil. The report includes mortality records and clinical records of cases among Americans and Europeans.

Dates:  circa 1922