Word: typhus
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...First Expedition to South America" by a party of its members. It contains detailed records of an investigation of certain forms of tropical disease in South America. Among the members of this expedition was Dr. Richard P. Strong, Professor of Tropical Medicine, who afterwards made a brilliant fight against typhus fever in Serbia during the last winter...
...first study of the kind, and will probably have an important effect on preventive medicine in South America. This work is compiled by Professor Richard P. Strong of the Medical School, who was the head of the recent expedition which was instrumental in stamping out the epidemic of typhus in Servia last spring...
...request of the Servian government, a second larger group of sanitary engineers and physicians has been formed from the medical schools of the leading universities, for the purpose of strengthening the fight against the typhus and cholera which is prevalent there. They will, like the party which sailed last month, work under the direction of Professor Richard P. Strong, of the Medical School. Six men from the University Medical School are in the group: H. A. Bunker, Jr., 4M.; D. C. Hankey 4M.; J. H. McGuire 4M.; W. C. Sheffield 1M.; Dr. J. J. Stack...
...Harvard-Technology group of sanitary engineers, physicians, and sanitary inspectors, who are going to fight the typhus and cholera which is raging in Servia, will sail on the Athenia from New York this afternoon at 4 o'clock. They will be supported by the American Red Cross for an indefinite stay in Servia since their mission is a very dangerous and uncertain...
Each member of the group realizes that they will be exposed to far more danger than if they were fighting in the trenches, for one bite from a louse, the vermin which carries the typhus, is considered fatal. The spirit and courage of the men who have volunteered to fight this pest which is now ravaging Servia, is, as Professor Sedgwick and others have remarked, nothing short of heroic...