GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)
1854 – 1920
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source US Army · (2009) The Panama Canal:An Army's Enterprise , United States Army Center of Military History , p. 36. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved on 24 August 2014. CMH Pub 70-115-1 · Public domain
1903 CE
#13923
Notes on the treatment of yellow fever at Las Animas Hospital, the hospital of the Sanitary Department, during the epidemic of 1900 at Havana, Cuba.
In 1901 Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever was practically er…
1909 CE
#5460
Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever.
1915 CE
#9259
Sanitation in Panama.
"Gorgas capitalized on the momentous work of ... Walter Reed, who had himself built much of his work on insights of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. He won internation…