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Yellow fever

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2717 Collections and/or Records:

Memorandum from L.O. Howard,  circa 1930

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 03249001
Scope and Contents

Howard reflects on his lifetime of work with mosquitoes. He includes a transcript of a January 13, 1901 letter from Walter Reed describing the success of Reed's experiments. A transcript of a February 20, 1902 letter from Ronald Ross discusses Ross' work in Africa.

Dates:  circa 1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Memorandum from Mario G. Lebredo to Henry Rose Carter, April 18, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 7
Identifier: 00907006
Scope and Contents

Lebredo informs Carter of his latest research and the International Sanitary Convention of the American Republics meetings.

Dates: April 18, 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Memorandum from [Paul L. Tate] to Albert E. Truby,   circa June 1953

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 7
Identifier: 06507049
Scope and Contents

[Tate] discusses the confusion of several names. He thinks that the man listed as Jose Martinez was really Jose M. Fernandez.

Dates:   circa June 1953
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Memorandum from Philip Showalter Hench concerning the papers of James Carroll,  February 24, 1954

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 60
Identifier: 02960014
Scope and Contents

Hench details his efforts to review Carroll's papers, held by George S.H. Carroll.

Dates:  February 24, 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Materials relating to James Carroll

Memorandum from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo Ramos,  March 4, 1941

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03901009
Scope and Contents

Hench summarizes his research on the Yellow Fever Commission and sends Ramos his report concerning the true site of Camp Lazear.

Dates:  March 4, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and reports of Philip Showalter Hench and Domingo F. Ramos relating to the location of Camp Lazear

Memorandum from Ray Sweeney to Hal R. Keeling,  January 23, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04201020
Scope and Contents

Sweeney reports to Keeling on the material he has found concerning Reed's presentation, in 1900, to the American Public Health Association meeting, in Indianapolis.

Dates:  January 23, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Memorandum from Robin Lampson,  December 14, 1937

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 80
Identifier: 06280009
Scope and Contents

Lampson solicits information about Gorgas for an upcoming book on the conquest of yellow fever.

Dates:  December 14, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Memorandum of interview with William Crawford Gorgas, by Wickliffe Rose,  July 14, 1914

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 19
Identifier: 03019001
Scope and Contents

Rose and Gorgas discuss the relative severity of ankylostomiasis and malaria in Malaya, as well as plans to eradicate yellow fever worldwide.

Dates:  July 14, 1914
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Memorandum [on Emmett Vaughan article],  circa May 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01102014
Scope and Contents

Carter critiques [Emmett Vaughan's] article on yellow fever.

Dates:  circa May 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Memorandum on infective properties of yellow fever,  circa 1900-1925

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 01324003
Scope and Contents

[Carter] discusses the infective properties of yellow fever and the influence of his work on Reed and Lazear.

Dates:  circa 1900-1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Miscellaneous notes and papers relating to Henry Rose Carter, malaria, and yellow fever

Memorandum to Michael E. Connor,  circa 1900-1925

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 31
Identifier: 01331015
Scope and Contents

The writer discusses endemic centers of yellow fever and the origin of the disease.

Dates:  circa 1900-1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Undated correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Memorandum to Wade Hampton Frost,  August 24, 1930

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 43
Identifier: 03243003
Scope and Contents

This document lists illustrative material to be included in Carter's "History of Yellow Fever," for which permissions to reproduce will be required.

Dates:  August 24, 1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Drafts of a Memorandum for Wade Hampton Frost

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Certain Papers in regard to Experiments Conducted for the Purpose of Coping with Yellow Fever,  December 5, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 59
Identifier: 02859001
Scope and Contents

Roosevelt, O'Reilly, and McCaw make statements about the value of the yellow fever experiments to humanity. A detailed history of the project is given, along with mention of all the individuals involved, including a listing of all the volunteers in the project. Numerous quotations are cited from various speeches and memorials dedicated to Walter Reed. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  December 5, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Method of the Spread of Yellow Fever,  April 15, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 36
Identifier: 02936001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas presents an article to the Canal Zone Medical Association on work done in Cuba and Panama to eradicate yellow fever.

Dates:  April 15, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Microscopic Examination of Dr. Muller's Slides, by Samuel T. Darling, 1924

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 38
Identifier: 01138018
Scope and Contents

An examination of the tissue slides indicates no evidence of yellow fever.

Dates: 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Military History of Major Walter Reed,  June 2, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 45
Identifier: 02645006
Scope and Contents

Surgeon General's Records listing military and personal history for Reed until June 2, 1902.

Dates:  June 2, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Histories of Major Walter Reed's military career

Military orders for Aristides Agramonte,  November 24, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 46
Identifier: 01846001
Scope and Contents

Sternberg recommends that Agramonte proceed to Havana to study the cause and prevention of yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  November 24, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Military orders for James Carroll,  July 25, 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 64
Identifier: 02564003
Scope and Contents

Special Orders #172 orders Carroll to Havana to continue the investigation of yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 25, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military orders relating to James Carroll

Military orders for Jesse W. Lazear,  July 30, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 74
Identifier: 02074001
Scope and Contents

Lazear is ordered to proceed to Pinar Del Rio to collect pathological material on the recent yellow fever outbreak.

Dates:  July 30, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Military orders for Paul Hamann and Alfred W. Covington,  October 21, 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 65
Identifier: 02565026
Scope and Contents

Special Orders #230 transfers privates Hamann and Covington to the hospital at Columbia Barracks. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 21, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military orders relating to Rafael T. Echeverria, Robert P. Cooke, Royal M. Dean, Paul Hamann, Alfred W. Covington, Frank H. Edmunds, Alexander N. Stark, Roger Post Ames, James Carroll, Jefferson Randolph Kean, John S. Neate, Adolph F. Springer, Newell R. Colby, and John W. Ross