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Who led the conquest of yellow fever?
If you are referring to the disease: US Army physician Walter Reed is largely credited with the campaign that "beat" yellow fever, but Reed credited Cuban Dr. Carlos Finlay for his success. Finlay gave the mosquito hypothesis, which proposed that mosquitoes are the disease's vector, rather than direct human contact as previously thought. Walter Reed led the expedition that confirmed this hypothesis to be true. The physician William Gorgas then applied Finlay and Reed's work to eradicate yellow fever from Havana, and later on, help keep yellow fever at bay amongst the workers of the Panama Canal.
Did Carlos J Finlay discover the cure to yellow fever?
There is no cure for yellow fever once the disease is contracted. Carlos J. Finlay discovered the vaccination to prevent yellow fever.
Who solved the problems of malaria and yellow fever in Cuba?
William Gorgas, with the help of the work of Carlos Finlay and William Reed studies on the spread of Yellow Fever through mosquitoes.
Who were Carlos Finlay parents?
His father was Edward, a Scotch physician, and his mother, Isabel de Barres a native of France.
What discovered the cause of yellow fever?
Yellow fever changed life's by taking away loved ones. People watched there family members suffer and die. The only cure they had back in 1793 was to take 10 Court's a day everyday because they thought that yellow fever effected blood and that was the only way to get rid of it and many people often died just from the cure.
Did Dewey get help from dr Walter reed in conquering the Philippines?
No, Dewey did not receive help from Dr. Walter Reed in conquering the Philippines. Dr. Walter Reed was known for his work in combating yellow fever, while Dewey was a naval officer who played a key role in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
What was Carlos finlay contribution to science?
For twenty years of his professional life, renowned Cuban physician and scientist Carlos J. Finlay stood at the center of a vigorously debated medical controversy. The etiology of yellow fever -- its causes and origins -- had puzzled medical practitioners since the earliest recorded cases of the disease in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Periodic epidemics of yellow fever ravaged the population of Finlay's native Cuba, particularly affecting the citizens of Havana, where he set up a medical practice in 1864. Finlay was intensely interested in epidemiology and public health, and his initial work on cholera -- the result of a severe outbreak of the disease in Havana in 1867 -- challenged the received wisdom of medical authorities.His conclusion that the disease was waterborne, though later verified, was rejected by publishers at the time. Finlay soon afterwards began research on yellow fever, publishing his first paper on it in 1872. Here the same keen observations and logical deductions which informed his analysis of cholera lead him to propose in 1881 that the Culex mosquito be "hypothetically considered as the agent of transmission of yellow fever." [1] This time the paper was published, but the wide professional circulation of The Annals of the Academy of Medical, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Havana did not assure Finlay of widespread support. Indeed, only one other Cuban physician, Claudio Delgado, rallied to Finlay's side in those early years.Finlay himself recognized the difficulties inherent in his revolutionary proposal: "I understand but too well," he concluded in the now famous 1881 paper, "that nothing less than an absolutely incontrovertible demonstration will be required before the generality of my colleagues accept a theory so entirely at variance with the ideas which have until now prevailed about yellow-fever." [2] From 1881 to 1900, Finlay pursued a campaign of 102 experimental inoculations on human volunteers, with the aim of demonstrating both the truth of his hypothesis and the possibility of inducing immunity to the disease. Finlay did believe that he had produced cases of yellow fever by mosquito inoculation, although the larger public health community remained skeptical. George Miller Sternberg, later to become Surgeon General of the United States Army, offered an essential critique of Finlay's experiments: that the participants were never sufficiently isolated from the general population to eliminate the possibility of contracting fevers from sources other than Finlay's mosquitoes.[3] This and the inconsistency with which fevers developed in the experimental participants kept the mosquito theory on the margins. Nevertheless, Finlay's expertise gained a place for him among the leading public health practitioners in Havana, and his advice and experiences proved invaluable to the United States Army Yellow Fever Commission. When the Commission decided to test the mosquito theory, Finlay provided the mosquitoes, and with the Commission's first scientifically valid success, Walter Reed wrote triumphantly, "The case is a beautiful one, and will be seen by the Board of Havana Experts, to-day, all of whom, except Finlay, consider the theory a wild one!"[4] The full run of experiments at Camp Lazear vindicated Finlay's two-decade-long struggle. In the glow of that early success, Reed acknowledged that "it was Finlay's theory, & he deserves much for having suggested it." [5] William Crawford Gorgas, who later applied the results of the experiments to a public health campaign which made possible the construction of the Panama Canal, characterized Finlay's contribution in this way: "His reasoning for selecting the Stegomyia as the bearer of yellow fever is the best piece of logical reasoning that can be found in medicine anywhere."[6] Finlay concluded his career as the Chief Sanitary Officer of Cuba, a position he held for eight years before retiring in 1909.[1] Carlos J. Finlay, "El mosquito hipotéticamente considerado como agent de transmision de la fiebre amarilla," Anales de la Real Academia de Ciencias Médicas Físicas y Naturales de la Habana 18 (1881): 147-169, reprinted in: Medical Classics 2 (February, 1938) 6: 590.[2] Finlay, "El mosquito," Anales de la Real Academia 18 (1881): 147-169, reprinted in: Medical Classics 2 (February, 1938) 6: 610, 611.[3] George Miller Sternberg, "Dr. Finlay's Mosquito Inoculations," American Journal of the Medical Sciences CII (1891) 6: 629, 630; George Miller Sternberg, "The Transmission of Yellow Fever by Mosquitoes," The Popular Science Monthly LIX (July, 1901) 3: 226-228.[4] Letter from Walter Reed to Albert E. Truby, 10 December 1900, published in: Albert Ernest Truby, Memoir of Walter Reed: the Yellow Fever Episode (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1943), figure 26.[5] Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed, 9 December 1900, Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Department of Historical Collections and Services, accession number: 02231001.[6] Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Walter Reed, 6 February 1902, Hench Reed Yellow Fever Collection, accession number: 02604001.
Best us army hospitals to work at?
Heard a lot of good things about Walter Reed.
What has the author Mary Finlay written?
Mary Finlay has written: 'Communication at work' -- subject(s): Business report writing, Business communication, Commercial correspondence
How do you write the following sentence correctly Carlos has did his work correct?
carlos has did his work correct
What has the author Donald G Finlay written?
Donald G. Finlay has written: 'Unifying behavioural theory and social work practice' -- subject(s): Human behavior, Social service
Is piper reed a fantasy book?
No, the Piper Reed series is a work of realistic fiction.
