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30 de may. de 2024 · Dr. William Crawford Gorgas was born October 3, 1854 in Toulminville, AL. He served in the US Army (1880–1918) as a physician and the 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). Dr. Gorgas was assigned to Fort Brown in 1882 at the height of a yellow fever (also known as "yellow jack") epidemic, in Brownsville and Matamoros.
Hace 2 días · Chief engineer John Frank Stevens Sanitation officer William C. Gorgas. The US formally took control of the canal property on May 4, 1904, inheriting from the French a depleted workforce and a vast jumble of buildings, infrastructure, and equipment, much of it in poor condition.
Hace 6 días · Chief Medical Officer Colonel William C. Gorgas also arrives in Panama to focus on sanitary conditions and eradicating the threat of yellow fever. Image source: Nichols, Aurin Bugbee and Tirzah Lamson Nichols.
Hace 1 día · Mosquito control instituted by William C. Gorgas dramatically reduced this problem. Antimalarial drugs Chloroquine Protocol for the synthesis of Resochin, Hans Andersag 1934. Johann "Hans" Andersag and colleagues synthesized and tested some 12,000 compounds, eventually producing Resochin as a substitute for quinine in the 1930s.
30 de may. de 2024 · Dr. William C. Gorgas was born October 3, 1854 in Toulminville, AL. He served in the US Army (1880–1918) as a physician and the 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). Dr. Gorgas was assigned to Fort Brown in 1882 at the height of a yellow fever (also known as "yellow jack") epidemic, in Brownsville and Matamoros.
30 de may. de 2024 · Yes, President Theodore Roosevelt was in office when the Panama Canal was being built. He moved rapidly to begin the construction, which he referred to as “this great enterprise.” Colonel William C. Gorgas, an expert in tropical diseases, was one of the first to start work in Panama in 1904. 8.
14 de may. de 2024 · In 1901, General William C. Gorgas carried the first successful vector control campaign against Aedes aegypti (L.) in Havana (Cuba) by utilizing two key strategies: mosquito breeding site reduction and the implementation of mosquito nets to disrupt their biting behavior .
