Mosquito life : the habits and life cycles of the known mosquitos of the United States; methods for their control; and keys for easy identification of the species in their various stages. An account based on the investigations of the late James William Dupree, M. D., surgeon-general of Louisiana, and upon original observations by the writer / by Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, Evelyn Groesbeeck.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Mosquito life : the habits and life cycles of the known mosquitos of the United States; methods for their control; and keys for easy identification of the species in their various stages. An account based on the investigations of the late James William Dupree, M. D., surgeon-general of Louisiana, and upon original observations by the writer / by Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the founding of the National Board of Health is largely due. In 1879 h‘s interest in the State medical problems, as shown by his labours as Chairman on Health and Quarantine of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, caused his election as vice-president of the Louisiana Medical Society, and later as a presi- dent of that distinguished body. He was a member of the American Medical Association and was hon- oured by an election as one of the vice-presidents of the Ninth International Medical Congress, in Wash- ington. For many years he was the Surgeon Gen- eral of the State of Louisiana, as well as president of the Board of Health of Baton Rouge ever since the war, and of the Medical Examining Board for the Pension Bureau at Baton Rouge. He was also for over twenty years the medical officer of the Louisiana State University and the Agricultural and Medical College. From 1878 he filled the chair of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene at that insti- tution. Not only this, but for four terms he was appointed to the State Legislature. As a bacteriologist he was an expert, owning one of the best laboratories in the State. He used, with great amusement, to tell me about how, when he first took up the work with bacteria, no other doc- tor in that region would accept the theories at all, but scoffed openly and dubbed him “Microbe Jimmy.” He did much bacteriological research, including comparative experiments with Sternberg’s Bacillus and Sanarelli’s Bacillus ictcroides. As a yel- low-fever expert, indeed, he bore an international