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Newspaper Clippings
The Avalanche, 1878
The Commercial Appeal, 1970-2005
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1878
The Memphis Daily Appeal, 1878-1879
The New York Times, 1878-1879, 1900-1901
Press-Scimitar, 1878-1978
The Washington Post, 1900-1901
Websites
Britannica On-Line Encyclopedia
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
The National Institutes of Health, Library of Medicine
Nobel Prize Foundation
Pan-American Health Organization
The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed On-Line Collection
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center On-Line Diary
The World Health Organization
abdominal cramps from yellow fever
acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin)
Adams, John Quincy (President)
Adams neighborhood, Memphis
adaptability of mosquitoes
Aedes aegypti (striped house mosquito, Egyptian mosquito) . See also mosquitoes
Aedes albopictus (tiger mosquito). See also mosquitoes
Africa and yellow fever
age of patient and yellow fever
Agramonte, Aristides (Dr.)
autopsies on yellow fever cadavers
background of
bacteria theory
Camp Lazear and
Carlos Finlay dinner
Congressional Gold Medal
death of
immunity of
James Carroll, contracting yellow fever
James Carroll criticism of
Jesse Lazear, contracting yellow fever
leave in U.S.
Pinar del Rio and
volunteers for human experiments
William E. Dean (Patient XY) and
Yellow Fever Board (Cuba) and
aid for Memphis
Alger, Russell (Secretary of War)
American health, fight for control over
American Medical Association
American Plague. See yellow fever
American Public Health Association
Ames, Roger Post (Dr.)
Andrus, John H. (Private)
Angevine family
animals, abandoned in Memphis
antibiotics vs. yellow fever
Antietam
Apache Indians
Appeal
Arlington National Cemetery
Armstrong, Lula (William Armstrong’s wife)
Armstrong, William James (Dr.)
Army Medical Museum
Army Medical School
Asibi strain
Associated Press
atmospheric conditions and yellow fever
autopsies on yellow fever cadavers
Avalanche
bacteria theory
bacteriology
Barnaby Furnishings, Memphis
Barry, John M.
battlefield, yellow fever as
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Santiago
Bauer, Dr.
B cells (white blood cells)
Beauperthuy, Louis-Daniel
Beeuwkes, Dr.
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bellevue Hospital Medical College
bell of Elmwood Cemetery, tolling constantly
bilingual consent form used at Camp Lazear
Billings, John Shaw (U.S. Army Medical Corps)
Bionda, Kate
bioterrorism and yellow fever
Blackburn, Luke Pryor (Dr.) “Dr. Black Vomit,”
black cardboard to mark doorway of dead
black population in Memphis
blacks and death from yellow fever
black vomit (vomito negro). See also yellow fever
black vomit from yellow fever
Blanco, General
bleeding from yellow fever
blood experiments, Cuba ()
blood supply for mosquito eggs
blow of the rod (coup de barre). See also yellow fever
Board of Experts. See Yellow Fever Commission of Experts
Bolton, Dickens & Co., Memphis
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Borden, William (Major)
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, The
British Medical Journal
Brooklyn Board of Health
bubonic plague
Bullard, John R.
burial patrols, Memphis
burning of contaminated items
calomel
Calvary Episcopal Church, Memphis
camera, invention
Camp Alger
Camp Columbia life at Yellow Fever Board (Cuba) and
Camp Lazear
Canfield Asylum
carbolic acid for disinfection
Carnival (Memphis Mardi Gras)
Carroll, James (Dr.) “Sunny Jim”
background of
bacteria theory
bitterness of
Congressional Gold Medal
death of
emotional deterioration of
Jesse Lazear
’s funeral
Pan-American Medical Congress ()
recovery from yellow fever
virus discovery
Walter Reed’s assistant
yellow fever, contracted by
Yellow Fever Board (Cuba) and
Carter, Henry Rose (Dr.)
castor oil for yellow fever
CDC (Centers for Disease Control)
cells (healthy) for replicating virus
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Chaillé, Stanford E. (Dr.)
Chickamauga Park (“River of Death”)
Chickasaw Guards
children
death from yellow fever
orphans, Memphis
subjects for medical testing
cholera
Choppin, Samuel (Dr.)
Citizen’s Relief Committee
city of corpses, Memphis
City of Washington
Civil War and yellow fever
Clark, John
cleansing of streets, Memphis
cocaine
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Columbia University
comeback of yellow fever
Coming Plague, The (Garrett)
common cold
Congo exploration
Congressional Gold Medal
Constance (Sister, Caroline Louise Darling)
convalescent period of yellow fever
conventional order (total collapse of), Memphis
Cook, Annie
Cooke, Robert P.
corruption in government, Memphis
costs of Carnival (Memphis Mardi Gras)
cotton market (largest), Memphis
coup de barre (blow of the rod). See also yellow fever
Court Street Infirmary, Memphis
Covington, A. W.
Crane, Stephen
Crook
Cuba (). See also Agramonte, Aristides (Dr.); Carroll, James (Dr.); Finlay, Carlos (Dr.); Kean, Jefferson Randolph (Major); Lazear, Jesse (Dr.); mosquitoes; mosquito theory; Reed, Walter (Major); yellow fever
Cuba () (continued)
blood experiments
Camp Lazear
Quemados, Marianao yellow fever epidemic
self-experimentation by Yellow Fever Board
Siboney yellow fever epidemic Spanish-American War
vivisection (human experiments)
Yellow Fever Board
Cuba and yellow fever
curfew in Memphis
Custer, George (General)
Czolgosz, Leon
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