Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915): of mosquitoes and yellow fever.

Postage stamps of ophthalmological interest.

POSTAGE stamps of ophthalmological interest include portrait figures of two practising ophthalmologists, Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt (1812-87) and Franz Cornelius Donders (1818-89). Four further portrait figures of scientists who have directly or indirectly contributed greatly to ophthalmology are shown in the stamps commemorating Johannes Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869), Hermann von Helmholtz (...

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Yellow Jack is a compelling and thorough narrative of one of the most interesting chapters in medical history. The book, which is highly readable even to those who may think they know this story, is based on a series of articles written by one of the authors, John R. Pierce, for Stripe, a publication of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr Pierce was a colonel in the Army Medical Corps and r...

Yellow Fever in Central America

Yellow Jack—How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets

Yellow Jack is a compelling and thorough narrative of one of the most interesting chapters in medical history. The book, which is highly readable even to those who may think they know this story, is based on a series of articles written by one of the authors, John R. Pierce, for Stripe, a publication of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr Pierce was a colonel in the Army Medical Corps and r...

Carlos J. Finlay y Barrés (1833-1915).

Médico y biólogo cubano. Estudió en Estados Unidos, graduándose en 1855 por el Jefferson Medical College de Filadelfia, para volver después a Cuba. Ya en 1868 propuso la adopción de medidas profilácticas y sanitarias durante una epidemia de cólera, sin mucho éxito. Sin embargo, su principal trabajo consistió en dilucidar cómo se producía la transmisión de la fiebre amarilla por los mosquitos. C...