biography
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Gorgas, William Crawford
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| lived:
| (1854–1920)
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| biography:
| US soldier and physician, born near Mobile, Alabama, USA. The son of Josiah Gorgas, he trained as a doctor and joined the Army Medical Corps (1880). Having survived an attack of yellow fever, he was assigned to the yellow-fever camp in Cuba during the Spanish-American War (1898). Appointed chief sanitary officer of Havana, he rid that city and much of the island of the mosquitoes and fever, and then went on to do the same for the Panama Canal Zone (1904–10), despite opposition from many in authority. He was the army's surgeon general during World War 1 (1914–18). He died in England while en route to Africa to investigate yellow fever there. |
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