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The collection documents Harter's efforts to have Columbia University memorialize Jesse W. Lazear's and Aristides Agramonte's work on the U.S. Yellow Fever....
Aristides Agramonte
Cuban physician, pathologist and bacteriologist
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni (June 3, August 19, ) was a Cuban American physician, pathologist and bacteriologist with expertise in tropical medicine.
Born in Puerto Principe in , studied medicine in the United States and belonged to a research group which studied yellow fever in
In George Miller Sternberg appointed him as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army and sent him to Cuba to study a yellow fever outbreak.[1] He later served on the Yellow Fever Commission, a U.S. Army Commission led by Walter Reed which examined the transmission of yellow fever.[2][3]
In addition to this research, he also studied plague, dengue, trachoma, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and more.
After serving on the Yellow Fever Commission, he served as a professor at the University of Havana as well as many government positions.[4][5]
See also
References
- ^"Yellow Fever & and the Reed Collection: The Walter Reed Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba".
University of Virginia Health Sci