Armed Forces

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Gorgas writes to O'Reilly concerning the administrative reorganizations in the Panama Canal Zone. He offers a political analysis of the situation.

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Gorgas reports on conditions in Panama regarding yellow fever and malaria. He recommends that the Nobel Prize be given to America.

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Gorgas informs [Sternberg] that Agramonte will be relieved of duty May 15, 1902.

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Gorgas responds to criticisms of Charles A. Reed. He presents an analysis of the Canal Zone Commission organization.

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Gorgas discusses the manning of ambulance sections in France.

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Ludlow defends his position against Wood's charges of concealing facts about yellow fever in Havana. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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Black discusses the relationship between Gorgas and Ludlow.

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Reed informs Kean of an incident involving two privates in the ambulance service, Army Medical Corps.

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Keen sends a contribution for Kissinger.

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Agramonte is informed that his contract as contract surgeon with the U.S. Army will be annulled on January 15, 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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Reed has requested four weeks of leave. His commanding officer has asked for an officer to replace him in his absence, but the request for replacement is denied.

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This series of endorsements by various members of the political and military community supports Reed's desire to join the Surgeon General's staff. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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This manuscript discusses Walter Reed's yellow fever experiments in Cuba and provides letters written by Reed.

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Reed reminisces about her father and includes letters written by her father to her mother. [Hench] notes inconsistencies with her transcriptions and the originals in the margins.

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This document describes items related to yellow fever in detail; including letters, reports, medical charts, medals, artifacts, books, photographs, interview transcripts, magazines, and sketches.

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This list includes sanitary reports, inspection reports and disease reports. Furthermore, there are numerous documents listed concerning Reed.

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Hench's list records microfilmed documents from the National Archives, including official reports and correspondence concerning Columbia Barracks Post Hospital, from 1899 to 1901.

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This is a list of twelve U.S. Army Hospital Corps members who were stationed at Camp Lazear.

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These are original lists of men undergoing the yellow fever experiments, with an autograph note by Hench.

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,...