THE PLAGUE COMMISSION.

Indian Plague Commission

burgh, has been appointed President. A better choice could not have been made. His researches regarding the antagonism of drugs, the physiological and therapeutic action of strophanthus and the treatment of snake-bite by antivenine indicate his special aptitude for the investigations and inquiries with which the Commission has been charged, and he U known to be a man of great general ability, g...

The Plague Commission on Haffkine's Anti-Plague Inoculation

Frederick Novy and the 1901 San Francisco plague commission investigation.

The 1900 San Francisco plague is a significant event in which citizens, physicians, and public health officials denied a diagnosis of plague on economic, political, and social grounds. To resolve the controversy, Surgeon General Walter Wyman appointed an independent federal commission of university-based experts to investigate whether plague was present. I use the activities of Frederick Novy, ...

The plague

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was born in Algeria, which was then a French colonial possession. His father was killed in battle in World War I a year after Albert’s birth, leaving his family in poverty. Camus worked his way through the university of Algiers by doing odd jobs, but dropped out after a severe bout of tuberculosis. He then turned to journalism, writing for an anti-colonial newspaper in ...

Plague

Plague is a disease that has been present for thousands of years and described since the earliest medical accounts. It occurs today worldwide, and may present in a variety of clinical forms. Bubonic disease, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague are seen in addition to a number of other less common manifestations. As an agent of bioterrorism,Yersinia pestis could pose an extreme threat if rel...