Word: kelser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNDER MEDICINE SEPT. 25 ISSUE WRITEUP REGARDING KELSER INADEQUATE TO DO JUSTICE. AS MAJOR ARMY VETERINARY CORPS RECENTLY COMPLETED IN ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE BRILLIANTLY CONCLUSIVE RESEARCH ON ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AFFECTING HORSES. WAS LAUDED IN 1927 BY GOVERNOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND FOR HEROIC VETERINARY SERVICE IN PHILIPPINES WHERE HIS RESEARCHES BROUGHT ABOUT CONTROL OF RINDERPEST EPIZOOTIC LYMPHANGITIS AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND OFFICIALLY REFERRED TO THIS SERVICE AS EPOCH MAKING. VETERINARY PROFESSION IS PROUD OF MAJOR KELSER...
Raymond Alexander Kelser, Army Medical School bacteriologist, reported recently in Science that the yellow fever mosquito apparently transmits human sleeping sickness to rabbits. Last week his associate, Dr. James Stevens Simmons was in St. Louis with yellow fever mosquitoes and monkeys to try to find out how St. Louis' sleeping sickness epidemic spreads. Impatient with the slowness of animal experiment three volunteers, heroic but anonymous, let themselves be bitten by mosquitoes which had bitten encephalitis victims. As unpredictable as their infection by the bites is their recovery...
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