Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Pholo by Undencood & Underwood COL. W. C. GORGAS The man who changed the Isthmus from a pest-hole to a spot as fit for human habitation as any place on the globe 253 254 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. WHAT COL. GORGAS HAD TO CORRECT was not available to mankind at the time the Frenchbegan their struggle with tropical nature. Over thehonor of first discovering the fact of the malignantpart played by the mosquito there has been someconflict, but credit is generally given to Dr. DonaldRoss, a Scotchman in the Indian Civil investigations however we
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Pholo by Undencood & Underwood COL. W. C. GORGAS The man who changed the Isthmus from a pest-hole to a spot as fit for human habitation as any place on the globe 253 254 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. WHAT COL. GORGAS HAD TO CORRECT was not available to mankind at the time the Frenchbegan their struggle with tropical nature. Over thehonor of first discovering the fact of the malignantpart played by the mosquito there has been someconflict, but credit is generally given to Dr. DonaldRoss, a Scotchman in the Indian Civil investigations however were greatly extendedand practical effect was given them by surgeons inthe United States Army engaged in the work ofeliminating pestilence from Havana. To Majors Wal-ter Reed, Jesse W. Lazear and James Carroll the chiefcredit is due for testing, proving and applying thetheory in Havana. Lazear bravely gave up his lifeto the experiment, baring his arm to the biteof L. mosquito, and dying afterward of yellowfever in terrible agony. The fact of this earlier ap-plication of the mosquito the-ory does not in the slightestdegree detract from the greathonor due to Col. W. for his work in chang-ing the Isthmus of Panamafrom a pest-h
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