WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS: His Life & Work. (First Edn.)

by Gorgas, Marie; & Hendrick, B

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Garden City:: Doubleday Page,, 1924. Hardcover; Hamilton College bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/labels; title page & facing frontispiece lightly foxed; otherwise, condition good.. index. With b&w portrait + 8 full-pg. b&w photos. Gorgas (1854-1920), Surgeon-General of U.S. Army; best known for sanitation methodology which eliminated yellow fever that decimated earlier French workmen in De Lessep's attempt to dig the Panama Canal. Of equal importance was Gorgas's similar successes at Havana, Panama City, Colon, Transvaal Mines, Central & South America. ||| Gorgas did not discover cause of yellow fever--that credit goes to Drs. Walter Reed & Carlos Finlay--but devising / implementing remedies to eliminate breeding places for disease-carrying Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes made his reputation. He received Britain's highest military honors funeral, then Laid In State in Washington, D.C.