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Aristides Agramonte y Simoni


(born June 3, 1868, Camagüey, Cuba — died Aug. 19, 1931, New Orleans, La., U.S.) Cuban-born U.S. physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist. Reared in New York City, he received his M.D. from Columbia University. He was a member of the U.S. Army's Reed Yellow Fever Board, which discovered in 1901 the role of mosquitoes in transmitting yellow fever. As a professor at the University of Havana (1900 – 30), he became an influential leader of scientific medicine in Cuba.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: Agramonte, Arístides
(ärē'stēdās ägrämōn') , 1869–1931, Cuban physician and pathologist, M.D. Columbia, 1892. A member of the medical corps of the U.S. army, he was appointed pathologist on the Commission on Yellow Fever in Havana, with Walter Reed and James Carroll, in 1900. He was professor of bacteriology and experimental pathology at the Univ. of Havana. Shortly before his death he undertook the organization of a department of tropical medicine at Louisiana State Univ.
 
 

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