Hench, Philip S. “The Conquest of Yellow Fever,” manuscript for an illustrated talk, Jan. 31, 1955. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
Howard, Sidney, and Paul de Kruif. Yellow Jack in Three Plays About Doctors, edited by Joseph Mersand. New York: Washington Square Press, 1961.
Hurd, Henry, M. Correspondence. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
Kean, Jefferson R. “Major Reed as a Medical Officer,” in Yellow Fever: A Compendium of Various Publications: Results of the Work of Major Walter Reed, Medical Corps., United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission, 1911. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
——. Note by Jefferson Kean in L.O. Howard, report excerpt in A History of Applied Entomology, p. 1, 1930. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
Kelly, Howard A. “The Lesson of Little Things: The Conquest of Yellow Fever.” Youth’s Companion 81, no. 2. Hench Coll., University of Virginia
——. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever, 2nd ed. Baltimore: Medical Standard Book Co., 1906.
King, A.F.A. “Dr. Walter Reed as a Teacher” in Yellow Fever: A Compendium of Various Publications: Results of the Work of Major Walter Reed, Medical Corps., United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission, 1911. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
Kissinger, John R. “Experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba 1900.” Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
Lazear, Jesse. Correspondence. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
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Moran, John J. Draft fragments: “Walter Reed’s Human Guinea Pigs (By One of Them).” Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
——. “My Date with Walter Reed and Yellow Jack.” Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
——. “Memoirs of a Human Guinea Pig.” Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
Oldstone, Michael. Viruses, Plagues and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Peabody, James. Correspondence. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
Pierce, John, and Jim Writer. Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Powell, J. H. Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949.
Reed, Blossom [Emilie M.]. “Biographical Sketch: Life and Letters of Dr. Walter Reed.” Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
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——. “The Propagation of Yellow Fever—Observations Based on Recent Researches” in Yellow Fever: A Compendium of Various Publications: Results of the Work of Major Walter Reed, Medical Corps., United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission, 1911. Hench Coll., University of Virginia.
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Sternberg, George M. A Text-Book of Bacteriology. New York: William Wood, 1896.
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——. Memoir of Walter Reed: The Yellow Fever Episode. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1943.
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Wills, Christopher. Yellow Fever Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues. New York: Basic Books, 1996.
Further Reading
Young readers who would like to know what a yellow fever epidemic was like should read these two books:
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793. New York: Aladdin, 2002. (fiction)
Murphy, Jim. An American Plaque: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. New York: Clarion, 2003. (nonfiction)
Index
Illustration page references appear in italics. Glossary terms appear in boldface.
A
Aedes aegypti, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Africa, [>], [>]
Agramonte, Aristides
Carroll, James, and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Cuban heritage, [>]
death, [>]
photographs of, [>], [>]
return to Cuba, [>]
return to U.S., [>], [>], [>]
yellow fever candidate, [>]
yellow fever research
autopsies, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
mosquitoes, [>], [>], [>]
at Pinar del Rio (Cuba), [>]
team member, [>]–[>]
American Public Health Association, [>]
Ames, Roger P., [>], [>], [>], [>]
anthrax, [>]
autopsy(ies), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
B
Bacillus icteroides
in blood, [>]
Carroll, James, research about, [>]
microscopes used to search for, [>], [>]
Reed, Walter, research about, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Sanarelli, Giuseppe, and, [>], [>], [>], [>]
study of, at Camp Columbia, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
as suspected cause of yellow fever, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
bacteria, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>].
See also Bacillus icteroides
bacteriology, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Benigno, Antonio, [>], [>], [>]
Bionda, Kate, [>]
blood
Bacillus icteroides search in, [>]
mosquitoes’ use of, [>], [>]
studying, for diseases, [>], [>], [>]
in yellow fever patients, [>], [>]
Brazil, [>]
C
Camp Columbia
Ames, Roger P., at, [>]
Bacillus icteroides research at, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Christmas Day party at, [>]
Dean, William, at, [>]–[>]
Hospital Corps, [>]
laboratory, [>], [>]
mosquito experiment decision at, [>]
photographs of, [>], [>]
Reed, Walter, at, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Camp Lazear
Ames, Roger P., at, [>]
instruments used at, [>]
naming of, [>]
opening, [>]
photographs of, [>], [>], [>]
volunteer project/experiment at, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Carroll, James
death, [>]
Finlay, Carlos, honor banquet and, [>]
Lazear, Jesse, and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
photograph of, [>]
Reed, Walter, assistant, [>]
yellow fever patient
contraction of disease, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
post-illness, [>], [>]
recovery from disease, [>]
symptoms of disease, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
yellow fever research
Bacillus icteroides, [>]
blood study, [>], [>], [>]
at Camp Columbia, [>]
microbe theory, [>]
mo
squitoes, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
team member, [>]–[>]
cartoon about yellow fever, [>]
causes of yellow fever, suspected, [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also specific names of causes
cell(s), [>], [>]
Central America, [>], [>]
cholera, [>], [>]
Clymer, George, [>]
Columbia, in cartoon, [>]
Columbia University Medical School, [>]
Confederate States of America, [>]
Congressional Gold Medal, [>], [>]
consent forms, [>], [>], [>]
Cooke, Robert, [>]–[>]
Culex pipiens, [>]
culture(s), [>], [>], [>], [>]
cure for yellow fever, [>], [>]
D
Davis, Jefferson, [>]
Dean, William
Reed, Walter, and, [>]–[>]
volunteer, [>]–[>]
yellow fever patient, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
deaths from yellow fever in Africa, [>]
in America, [>]–[>], [>]
in Cuba, [>], [>], [>], [>]
in Ethiopia, [>]–[>]
lack of, at Camp Lazear, [>]
Declaration of Independence, [>]
diphtheria, [>]
E
epidemics/outbreaks of yellow fever
in Cuba, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Reed, Walter, and, [>], [>]
in United States, [>]–[>]
F
Fernandez, Nicanor, [>]
Finlay, Carlos
about, [>]
honoring of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Kissinger, John, and, [>]
mosquitoes/yellow fever theory
Aedes aegypti and, [>], [>]–[>]
Lazear, Jesse W., and, [>]
Nobel Prize nominations for, [>]
proving, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Reed, Walter, and, [>]
research team and, [>]–[>], [>]
skepticism about, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
photograph of, [>]
Florida, in cartoon, [>]
Folk, Levi, [>]–[>]
France, [>]
G
Guam, [>]
H
Havana (Cuba)
Finlay, Carlos, honor banquet in, [>]
Reed, Walter, in, [>], [>], [>]
Spanish-American War begun in, [>]
yellow fever deaths in, [>], [>]
yellow fever hospital in, [>]
yellow fever outbreaks in, [>], [>], [>]
Hodge, Dr., [>]
hog cholera, [>]
Hospital Corps, [>]
hypothesis (theory)
Bacillus icteroides, [>]
defined, [>]
infected articles/clothing, [>], [>], [>], [>]
mosquitoes’/Finlay’s, [>], [>], [>], [>]
I
immune, [>], [>], [>]
incubator, [>], [>]
Indianapolis, Indiana, [>]
infected articles/clothing
Reed, Walter, and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
as suspected cause of yellow fever, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
volunteers/volunteer project for study of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
injections, of diseases/drugs, [>]–[>], [>]
insects, disease spread by, [>]. See also mosquitoes
J
Jernegan, Warren, [>]–[>]
Johns Hopkins University, [>]
jungles, yellow fever in, [>], [>]
K
Kean, Jefferson, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Kennedy, Dr., [>]
Kissinger, John
Lazear, Jesse W., and, [>]
volunteer, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
yellow fever patient, [>], [>]
L
larva (e), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Las Animas Hospital
Carroll, James, at, [>]
Lazear, Jesse W., work at, [>], [>], [>], [>]
photograph of, [>]
Lazear, Houston, [>]
Lazear, Jesse W.
athlete/scholar, [>]
Carroll, James, and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
children, [>], [>]
death, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
honoring of, [>], [>], [>]
photographs of, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Reed, Walter, and, [>], [>], [>]
wife, [>]
yellow fever patient, [>]–[>]
yellow fever research
insect/mosquito studies, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
at Las Animas Hospital, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
instruments/tools for, [>], [>], [>], [>]
team member, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Lazear, Mabel, [>]
M
malaria, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Martinez, Jose, [>]
Memphis, Tennessee, [>]
microscope (s)
Bacillus icteroides search under, [>], [>]
at Camp Columbia, [>]
Carroll, James, use of, [>], [>], [>]
Lazear’s, Jesse W., [>]
virus seen under, [>], [>]
modern research, [>]
monkeys, as carriers of yellow fever, [>]
Moran, John, [>]–[>], [>],
mosquitoes. See also under Finlay, Carlos
about, [>], [>]
Aedes aegypti, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
bites from, timing of, [>]–[>], [>]
blood used by, [>], [>]
Culex pipiens, [>]
Dean, William, and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
eradication/extermination programs, [>], [>], [>]
female, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
in jungles, [>]
larva(e), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lazear, Jesse W., study of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
male, [>], [>]
proboscis of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Reed, Walter, study of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Camp Lazear and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Finlay, Carlos, and, [>]
Wood grant for, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
as suspected cause of yellow fever
Dean, William, and, [>], [>]
early theory about, [>], [>]
Kean, Jefferson, and, [>]
Lazear, Jesse W., and, [>], [>]–[>]
proving, [>]
volunteers/volunteer project
to study
Camp Lazear and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Carroll, James, and, [>]
Dean, William, and, [>]–[>]
Kissinger, John, and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
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