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
- Date:
- 1911
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Inchest rewards in the power of his countrymen to bestow. This association earn- estly urges upon the attention of Congress the duty of making full provision for the suDDort of his family. „ . , , . Resolved That the president designate a committee of nine members of this associa- tion with'power to increase its number, which shall be authorized and requested to devise and carry out a plan or aid in similar efforts elsewhere instituted, by which a suitable and permanent memorial of this great benefactor of his race may be secured. This committee shall be authorized to prepare and publish a statement of the services of the late Maj. Reed in discovering the mode by which yellow fever may be exter- minated. The following resolution was adopted at the meeting of the Ameri- can Medical Association at Saratoga, N. Y., on June 11, 1902: Whereas the members of the American Medical Association believe that the recent work of the United States Army surgeons in Cuba in relation to the discovery of the method of transmission of yellow fever is of such magnitude and far-reaching benefi- cence as to rank only second with Jenner's discovery of vaccination; and Whereas the practical value of this discovery has been proven by the complete eradication of this scourge from Habana: Resolved, That the thanks of this association be tendered the gentlemen who accomplished this brilliant result, and particularly to Drs. Walter Reed, James Car- roll, A. Agramonte, W. O. Gorgas, and to Leonard Wood, who recognized the impor- tance of the work and made it possible by his hearty encouragement and assistance. Resolved, That this association, while deeply deploring the death of Dr. Jesse A. Lazear, who died a martyr to science, admires and gratefully acknowledges the heroic devotion of this physician and some of the members of the Hospital Corps to the cause of humanity. Resolved, That these resolutions be published in The Journal, and that copies be transmitted to Drs. Reed, Carroll, Agramonte, Wood, Gorgas, and Mrs. Lazear. RESOLUTIONS TAKEN BY THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICINE AT CAIRO, EGYPT, DECEMBER 22, 1902. Les membres du Premier Congres de Medecine en Egypte apprennant avec le plus profond regret la mort prematuree du Maj. Walter Reed du Corps Medical de l'Armee des Etats Unis d'Amerique. La part brillante et importante qu'il a pris dans la decouverte du moustique stegomyia comme le seul agent transmitteur du parasite de la fievre jaune, reussessant ainsi a mettre les ravages de cette terrible maladie sous le controle des hygienistes fait de sa mort une perte cruelle pour l'humanite. Le Congres decide en consequence d'exprimer a cette occasion toute sa sympathie au Corps Medical de l'Armee des Etats Unis ainsi qu'a la famille du Maj. Reed. Le Congres decide en outre de prier le secretaire du Congres d'envoyer officielle- ment par l'entremise des Autorites competentes une copie de la presente resolution' au Chirurgien en Chef de l'Armee des Etat Unis d'Amerique et une autre <§galment a Madame Veuve Reed. [From an editorial in American Medicine (referring to Maj. Reed).] His was the master mind and he the guiding spirit in an investigation whereby multitudes of lives have been saved, a pestilential malady robbed of its mysteries and terrors, and an annual expenditure of millions of money shown to be in lame part, if not entirely, needless. 6 [From the resolutions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.] By solving the problem of the mode of spread of yellow fever Mai. Reed not onlv made a great contribution to science, but at the same time conferred inestimable thl1™ OTn u .c°u£try an,d upon mankind. To have discovered and demonstrated wiL™0-?8' wh.lch.Jave al,r.f dy been successfully tested in Cuba, of eradicating a widespread and terrible pestilence is a benefaction of imperishable renown, of incal- culable value in the saving of human lives, of vast importance to commercial interests and deserving the highest rewards in the power of his countrymen to bestow [From lecture of Sir Patrick Manson, M. D., medical adviser of the British Colonial Office.] Dr. Walter Reed did a great and beneficent work We in England tWrmo^i,, appreciate this, and heartily sympathize with America ir,.the'loss sic?£&Z^worS](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21355241_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
