. Guide leaflet. Fig. 23. JAMES CARROLL Fig. 24. ARISTIDES AGRAMONTE 45 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS Two years later, early in the year 1900, a commission of armyofficers was appointed to study the disease in Havana as a result of anumber of cases which had occurred among the American troopsstationed there. The Chairman of the Commission was Dr. WalterReed, and his associates were Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Jesse W. Lazear,and Dr. Aristides Agramonte. At the very beginning, the investiga-tors turned their attention to the mosquito as a possible agent in thetransmission of the disease. Dr. Carlos
. Guide leaflet. Fig. 23. JAMES CARROLL Fig. 24. ARISTIDES AGRAMONTE 45 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS Two years later, early in the year 1900, a commission of armyofficers was appointed to study the disease in Havana as a result of anumber of cases which had occurred among the American troopsstationed there. The Chairman of the Commission was Dr. WalterReed, and his associates were Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Jesse W. Lazear,and Dr. Aristides Agramonte. At the very beginning, the investiga-tors turned their attention to the mosquito as a possible agent in thetransmission of the disease. Dr. Carlos J. Finlay of Havana hadsuggested the mosquito theory of yellow fever very convincinglyin 1881, though without experimental proof, and the discoveriesof Manson and Ross and Grassi and Bignami had recentlydemonstrated a similar origin for malaria. Reed and his colleagueswere fortunate in thus beginning almost at once with a correcthypothesis. The lower animals do not suffer from yellow fever, so thatexperiments up
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