walter reed

     

In 1893 this major was named curator of the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C.

Trivia about walter reed

  • The Army's largest health-care facility is the D.C. medical center named for this man
  • It wasn't yellow fever but chronic appendicitis that killed this army surgeon in 1902
  • A D.C. medical center founded in 1909 is named for this military surgeon
  • This major's major achievement was proving that mosquitos transmit yellow fever
  • In 1901 this army surgeon who later had a D.C. hospital named for him published "The Prevention of Yellow Fever"
  • In 1900, this U.S. Army medical officer proved yellow fever is spread by mosquito bites
  • During the war he headed a committee to investigate the spread of yellow fever in military camps
  • The Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. was named for this bacteriologist
  • His tombstone says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever"
  • Washington D.C.'s Army Medical Center is named in his honor
  • He began studying yellow fever in 1897, 3 years prior to being appointed to a commission to find its cause
  • He decided against a general medical practice & chose a military career, entering the Army Medical Corps in 1875
  • Now closed, the D.C. hospital named for him opened in 1909 & in WWI, went from 80 beds to 2,500 in months
  • In 1900 he became head of a U.S. Army commission in Havana to study yellow fever
  • During the Spanish-American War, he led a committee to investigate the spread of disease in U.S. Army camps
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a grey uniform on a mannequin at the American Red Cross) Named for their dresses, gray lady volunteers provided hospitality services, especially to sick and wounded soldiers beginning in 1918 at this Washington, D.C. hospital
  • His tombstone says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever"
  • A Washington, D.C. hospital bears the name of this man who fought yellow fever in Cuba & discovered its cause
  • ...in 1893, became professor of clinical microscopy at the Army Medical College in Washington, D.C.
  • This man who died in 1902 would have turned in his grave at the conditions in a D.C. facility named for him