Report on the etiology and prevention of yellow fever / by George M. Sternberg.

  • Sternberg, George Miller, 1838-1915.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Report on the etiology and prevention of yellow fever / by George M. Sternberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. I am indebted to tlie president and trustees of the Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, for ttie title and privileges of Fellow by Courtesy in the University, and to Dr. jS. H. Martin, professor of biology, and Dr. Wm. H. Welch, professor of pathology, for laboratory facili- ties and valuable assistance in various ways. In Havana, through the courtesy of the governor-general of the island; of Dr. Antonio Pardinas, medical inspector-general; and of Dr. Fernandes Malo, director of the military hospital, I have had free access to the wards of this hospital, and have been able to make nu- merous autopsies in typical cases of yellow fever. I desire to express my obligations to these gentlemen and to the medical officers of the Spanish army on duty at this hospital. Also to Dr. Emiliano Nunez, director of the new and admirable civil hospital, Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes. Also to Dr. Santos Fernandos, and the gentlemen connected with the bacteriological laboratory of the Cronica Medica-Quirurgica, for valuable assistance in the preparation of culture material, etc.; to Dr. Daniel M. Burgess, United States sanitary inspector. Marine Hospital Service, at Havana, for assistance at autopsies, and in many other ways during my entire stay in Cuba; to Dr. Carlos Finlay, and his associate in bacteriological work, Dr. Claudio Delgado; to Dr. Francis I. Vildosola for the use of his laboratory, in which my culture material was pre- pared during the summer of 1889, by Dr. Emilio Martinez. The last- named gentleman has rendered most valuable services as my assistant during the past year both in Cuba and in Baltimore. During my stay at Decatur, Ala., in 1888, I received valuable assistance from Dr. Jerome Cochran, health officer of the State of Alabama, and from Dr. B. F. Cross, Dr. E. J. Conyngton, and Dr. E. M. Littlejohn, practicing physicians in Decatur. Some of my photomicrographs have been made at the Hoagland Laboratory, Brooklyn, with the kind assistance of Dr. C. N. Hoagland. Dr. James E. Eeeves, of Chattanooga, Tenu., has kindly prepared for me a series of sections from twenty-five of my cases, which I have placed beside my own and those of my laboratory assistant, Dr. Mar-