Letter from John R. Taylor to Philip Showalter Hench December 5, 1941

Containers:

Box 38, Folder 36

Creator:

Taylor, John R.

Extent:

4 pages

Scope and content:

Taylor enjoyed Hench's “Conquest of Yellow Fever” and sees nothing in it to correct. He claims that Finlay wrote about the Aedes aegypti mosquito as a means of yellow fever transmission in 1881 and gave the method and technique for experimentation. He details his own involvement as a yellow fever volunteer.

Language:

English

Subjects:

Health boards
Human Experimentation
Mosquitoes
Yellow fever
letters (correspondence)

Names:

Taylor, John R.

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