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M0014230: The Conquerors of Yellow Fever, 1900. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Left to Right: Major J. R Kean, Chief Surgeon, Department of Western Cuba; Dr Carlos J Finlay (who conceived the mosquito theory of the disease's transmission); Lieutenant Albert E. Truby; Dr. Aristides Agramonte; Dr. Jesse W. Lazear; Dr James Carroll; Major General Leonard Wood, Govenor General of Cuba (seated with hand on chin); Major Walter Reed, President of the United States Army Yellow Fever Board; Dr Roger Post Ames; Dr Robert P. Cooke (with hat); Warren G. Jernegan; John J. Moran; John R. Kissinger. The figures in the far right background are a soldier who represents U.S. army volunteers, and a Spaniard who represnts volunteers from his country.
Published as the frontispiece to Truby, Albert E: Memoir of Walter Reed : the yellow fever episode, New York ; London : P.B. Hoeber, 1943
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