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CONTENTS
Chapter | Page |
IV. Broadening the Base | 73 |
Inadequate Quarters | 73 |
Support From the Medical Profession | 76 |
A New Surgeon General Presses for a New Building | 77 |
Objections to Proposed New Building | 78 |
John Shaw Billings Becomes Curator | 79 |
The Museum Moves | 82 |
A Shift in Emphasis | 84 |
The "Old" and the "New" Museums | 84 |
Dr. Billings' Appraisal | 85 |
V. An Ending and A Beginning | 89 |
The Museum and the Army Medical School | 90 |
Walter Reed, Curator | 93 |
Problems With Space | 95 |
The Prime Source of Specimens | 98 |
Bacteriology and Roentgen Rays at the Museum | 100 |
Services of Dr. Billings | 101 |
Animal Experimentation at the Museum | 103 |
The Spanish-American War | 105 |
VI. The Walter Reed Chapter | 107 |
Yellow Fever Epidemics | 107 |
Studies on Transmission | 109 |
The Yellow Fever Board at Work | 112 |
Dr. Finlay's Mosquito Theory | 118 |
Human "Guinea Pigs" | 119 |
The Death of Dr. Lazear | 120 |
Studies at Camp Lazear | 122 |
Soldier Volunteers | 124 |
Testing the " Fomites" Theory | 125 |
Transmission by Mosquitoes Established | 127 |
Search for a Cause | 130 |
VII. Triumph Over Typhoid | 133 |
Typhoid and the Medical Museum | 134 |
The Typhoid Board's Report | 135 |
A New " Villain"— The Fly | 137 |
Changes in the Museum Command | 139 |
Volunteers for Vaccination Against Typhoid | 139 |
European Experience | 142 |
Compulsory Vaccination Introduced | 143 |