Speculations on the Cause of Yellow Fever

Walter Reed (1851-1902): on the cause of yellow fever.

BEGINNINGS Born in Belroi, Virginia on September 13, 1851, Walter Reed was the youngest of five children. His was a religious family; his father, Lemuel Sutton Reed, was a Methodist minister and his mother, Pharaba White Reed, was a staunch Christian. At age 14, he began two years of serious study under former Confederate Army Lieutenant William Richardson Abbot, who instilled in the young man ...

On the Microbian Doctrine of Yellow Fever

among the naval forces of Port Boyal, Jamaica, this pestilence has ceased to be the scourge it was when Lind wrote: " It is reputed that in the early part of the eighteenth century this island (Jamaica) buried to the amount of the whole number of its white inhabitants once in five years." The writer had an opportunity of studying the disease clinically in 1882, during an outbreak of yellow feve...

On the Yellow Fever Epidemics of Bermuda

On the Cause, Malignancy, and Persistence of Yellow Fever Aboard Ship

gree liable to the production of yellow fever poison, is an equally certain truth ; but this circumstance probably arises from some inappreciable difference in the nature of the resultant poison from different organic matter decomposing under different meteorological conditions in the aggregate, though alike, it may be, in high temperature. At least, there appears to be a difference great enoug...

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