Yellow fever : a compilation of various publications: results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission.

  • United States Senate
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1911
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    YELLOW FEVER. DR. REED'S WORK IN CUBA, BY MAJ. GEN. LEONARD WOOD, UNITED STATES ARMY. [Abstract;.] The work of Dr. Walter Reed is the most important work in the way 0f medial research and discovery which has beeriacTomplished by any one who has lived in this hemisphere. There i^no other medical discovery to which it can be compared unless it h? r W % anesthesia. The results to humanity are Lalcukbkand f^reacS ing. It is safe to say that this discovery has resulted in saving each year more lives than were lost in the to with Spain, and m a favW to commerce and especially to the southern portion of ou? countr/ of an amount equal to the cost of the war with Spain countrJ> Ine following letters and telegrams were received: Dr. S. S. Adams Washington, D. C, December 29,1902. President District Medical Society. =,-^J * Dh' uA,m?: 1 reSret exceedingly that an engagement made some time since, and from which I can not excuse myself, will prevent me from attenSng the Reed memorial meeting on Wednesday evening ^enamg tne aPPreclat+t8 more deeply than I do the loss to scientific medicine and to the ™KicofrPs °f ,the *rmy caused by Maj. Reed's death. His scientific work was eminently fruitful and far-reaching in its results. As the head of the medical corps during nine years of his most useful work, which was prosecuted under mv general direction, I am of course entirely familiar with the results accomplished Maj. Keed was endowed by nature and by training with the essential qualifications for engaging m research work m the special field to which he devoted his talents and his energies Conservative, painstaking, thorough, persevering, and ready in resources he acquitted himself with credit m every task assigned to him, and has achieved great and deserved distinction by his successful demonstration of the method by which yellow fever is transmitted from man to man. In addition to this, he was a modest and courteous gentleman, who attracted all of those who came in contact with him His death came to me, as to his other numerous friends, as a great personal grief and irreparable loss. 6 Very truly, yours, Geo. M. Sternberg. Baltimore, December 30, 1902. Dear Dr. Adams: I have to leave unexpectedly to-day for Canada. Please express my regrets that I can not be at the memorial meeting to Reed. With kind regards, sincerely yours, Wm. Osler. Richmond, Va., December 31, 1902. Maj. J. R. Kean, Surgeon General's Office, War Department, Washington, D. C: Greatly regret I can not attend the meeting to-night in honor of Dr. Reed, whose friendship I prized, whose character I admired, and whose contribution to science and country can not be measured. Fitzhugh Lee. Treasury Department, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, Washington, D. C, January 5, 1903. Dr. F. S. Nash, 1723 Q Street, Washington, D. C. My Dear Dr. Nash: As you may know by this time, I have been absent from the city for a month and returned Saturday. On opening my mail to-day I find your note of December 9, and I wish to express my great regret that I could not have been here to accept the honor which was conferred upon me of responding at a meeting held in memory of Dr. Reed. It would have been a great privilege to have taken part
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