Yellow fever

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...

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Mrs. Agramonte Rodriguez Leon discusses her father's views on Lazear's and Carroll's actions and roles in the yellow fever experiments, commenting specifically on Hench's notes.

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Pothier sends White his final report on the 1923 Yellow Fever Commission inspection tour of Colombia. He describes travel, meetings with government officials, and incidence of yellow fever and mosquitoes. A series of appended documents [two in Spanish] discuss preparations for the trip, the suspected epidemic in Bucaramanga, individual yellow fever cases, and further details of the tour.

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Pothier describes yellow fever outbreaks in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

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Mitchel complains about his problems with the Peruvian government. He encloses a copy of a letter from M.L. Vega regarding his situation.

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[Russell?] reports that Hanson has protective antibodies in his serum against Leptospira icteroides, and that pigs protected by his serum are still alive. [Russell?] believes this proves the connection between icteroides and yellow fever.

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Hanson reports on the conclusion of the yellow fever campaign in Peru. He encourages Carter to file all his expense receipts since the exchange rate has improved.

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Carter expresses his fear that yellow fever will be a problem in the Yucatan during the upcoming season.

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[Carter] asks Connor for a translation of a text on the pre-Columbian Yucatan. He believes yellow fever may have existed among the Maya.

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Carter writes about the funding of yellow fever work in Peru.

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Lazear reports that Reed has them working on Sanarelli's bacillus, but he wants to discover the real organism. He offers his opinion of Carroll.

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[Lazear] disagrees with Reed and Carroll's concentration on Sanarelli's work. He believes that the true cause of yellow fever lies elsewhere.

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Lazear believes he is on the track of the yellow fever germ but this news must be kept secret for now.

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LePrince discusses field work in Texas to control the outbreak of yellow fever.

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[Laura Carter] writes to Russell concerning her planned completion of her father's unfinished history of yellow fever.

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[Laura Carter] discusses the location of her father's manuscripts and refers Kelly to Frost.

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Mabel Lazear expresses appreciation for the play about her husband, Jesse Lazear.

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Ireland compliments Truby on his manuscript about his experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission.

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Tate finds fault with Howard's play about yellow fever.