The objective: to prove Dr. Carlos Finlay's theory that mosquitoes carried the dread Yellow Fever." A series from "Pioneers of American Medicine", painted by Dean Cornwell. Users of the collection who ...

More Deadly Than War After the Spanish-American War of 1898, during which far more U.S. troops died from yellow fever than in battle, another board came to Cuba in 1900 to study the disease ...

Cournil, Mélanie 2018. « What Dangerous Men » : La pratique de la médecine sur l’île de la Dominique à la fin du xviiie siècle. XVII-XVIII, Vol. 75, Issue. , ...

In the 20th century, a vaccine for yellow fever was developed to protect people in regions where the disease still flourishes. Epidemics continued, however, during every decade of the century ...

“It put me down the path of thinking about yellow fever — and not just death — but about life and how it fundamentally shaped institutions.” She was writing a book, “Necropolis ...