biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1907)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Woolwich, E Greater London, UK. He emigrated in childhood to Canada and the USA. Serving as a surgeon in the US army, and in association with Walter Reed, he did valuable research on yellow fever, deliberately infecting himself with the disease in the process (1900). In 1902 he became professor of bacteriology and pathology at Columbia and the Army Medical School. |
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