Education

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This is a report of Lazear's grades at Johns Hopkins University.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...

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,...

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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Lazear compares his classes in medical school with those in New York.

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Reed teases McPherson and writes that he cannot take more leave to be McPherson's best man. Reed will travel to Warrenton, Virginia and to White Sulphur Springs.

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Gorgas has been offered the presidency of the University of Alabama.

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Truby provides his recollections of the yellow fever experiments, including Lazear's infection, Carroll's and Agramonte's claims, Dean's infection, Kean's leadership, and the memorial plaque for Lazear at Las Animas Hospital.

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Templeton informs her that reference material on Jesse Lazear is being filed at the [Washington and Jefferson College] library.

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Pope thanks Laura Carter for Henry Carter's notes. He is impressed that Carter had theorized a living host as an explanation of the extrinsic incubation of yellow fever before this had been proven.

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Jacobson writes that he would be delighted to receive photographs of Reed's Brooklyn Hospital diplomas for inclusion in an article and in an exhibit at the hospital.

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Atch Hench describes a book by Josiah Gorgas that he has sent to his brother as a Christmas gift. He also relates family and professional news.

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McClain encloses a receipt for the amounts given to Washington and Jefferson College as gifts during the year 1940.

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Lyons returns material on loan from Hench for the Hall of Fame ceremony. She also sends copies of other material which might prove useful for Hench's book.

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Pierce writes that the Public Health Service seeks a high degree of excellence for all courses of instruction. Lecturers should be recognized leaders in their fields. Pierce asks Carter to prepare a statement on malaria and yellow fever.

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Pierce thanks Carter for his paper on yellow fever.

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White informs Hench that he knew Reed and Carroll well and was the anesthetist for Reed's last operation. He believes Carroll's mosquito bite was accidental, not experimental. White encloses a manuscript characterizing the two men and describing Reed's operation.