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This interview transcription includes questions posed to Hench by a Cuban newspaper and Hench's answers. Hench expresses appreciation for receiving the Order of Finlay. He explains his thoughts on preserving Camp Lazear and emphasizes the cooperation that took place among people of different countries and different religions in discovering the cause of yellow fever. He also discusses his interest in hormones, particularly cortisone, hydrocortisone, and corticotropin.

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This interview transcription includes questions posed to Hench by a Cuban newspaper and Hench's answers. Hench expresses appreciation for receiving the Order of Finlay. He explains his thoughts on preserving Camp Lazear and emphasizes the cooperation that took place among people of different countries and different religions in discovering the cause of yellow fever. He also discusses his interest in hormones, particularly cortisone, hydrocortisone, and corticotropin.

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In an introduction to Hench's presentation at a Havana conference, Castillo provides an overview of Hench's Nobel prize winning research on arthritis and cortisone. See English translation.

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Kean discusses the Yellow Fever Commission, in response to Hench's questionnaire.

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Kean discusses the Yellow Fever Commission, in response to Hench's questionnaire.

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Kean describes Reed's illness, death, and funeral.

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Noguchi discusses the pathological reports of a possible yellow fever case in Lagos, Nigeria.

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[Tate] explains that Andrus was exceedingly ill and Lambert, in an act of bravery, broke quarantine to fetch Ames.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...

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Andrus' medical history describes the development of the spinal condition that has left him bedridden.

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Kean details the methods the Sanitary Inspectors used in Cuba to combat yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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Kean discusses the sanitation efforts used to prevent yellow fever in Cuba from 1906 to 1909. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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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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Carter writes about the Public Health Service, his children, and his health.

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Carter writes about his children and other personal matters.

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Carter describes his current hospital work.

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Carter writes that his life has been unsettled for the part ten years and a struggle for the past four or five. He discusses his work of caring for patients in hospitals and aboard vessels.

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Carter writes about the health of his wife, as well as his own health.

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[Carter] discusses malaria infections missed by careful blood examination.

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[Carter] discusses past experiments and problems with the use of the blood index in relation to malaria.