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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