Item #401921 "Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever".; Extract from: Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. LII, no. 14. William Crawford GORGAS.

"Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever".; Extract from: Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. LII, no. 14

Chicago: 3 April 1909. First edition. Folio. Pp. 1075-77. Portait plate of Gorgas by Harris and Ewing. Disbound. Fine / From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. Item #401921

"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 eradicated from Havana. Gorgas outlined the main principles of his methods in the above paper." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5460).

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