ï~~I. SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS AT BOSTON, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER,
1918.1
By Lieut. Commander M. J. ROSENAU and Lieut. W. J. KEEGAN, United States
Navy, and Surg. JOSEPH GOLDBERGER and Passed Asst. Surg. G. C. LAKE, United
States Public Health Service.
CONTENTS.
I. Series of experiments at Boston, November and December, 1918, by M.
J. Rosenau, W. J. Keegan, Joseph Goldberger, and G. C. Lake...Introduction and acknowledgments.--.----------------------------
Subjects of experiments --...-------------------------------------
Description of experiments-------------------------------------
Summary and discussion of results.. -.----------------------------
Appendices....-.-------------------------------................A. D onors.---- -------------------------------------......B. History of cultures of Pfeiffer's bacillus used_----.--.--.--.---
C. Account of the outbreak on the U. S. S. Yacona--.--.--.-- -
II. Series of experiments at San Francisco, November and December, 1918,
by G. W. McCoy and De Wayne Richey---------------------
Introduction.------ ----------------- ----------------.-....Subjects for experimentation---- --------------------------------
Description of experiments.--- ---------------------------- ------
Sum m ary -------------------------- ---------- ----. ----.
Tables.-- --------------------------------------------- --------
III. Series of experiments at Boston, February and March, 1919, by M. J.
Rosenau, W. J. Keegan, De Wayne Richey, G. W. McCoy, Joseph
Goldberger, J. P. Leake, and G. C. Lake-------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
General considerations.- -- -------------------------------------
Volunteers.-.-----------------------------------------------
Experim ents...--------------------------------- ---------------
Sum m ary ---.-------------------------------------------------
Conclusions....-------------------------------------------------
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INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
These experiments were carried on jointly by medical officers who
were detailed for this purpose from the United States Navy and the
12 United States Public Health Service, at the United States Quaran20 tine Station, Gallups Island, and the United States Naval Hospital,
22 Chelsea, Mass. The experiments were started November 6, and
22unavoidably discontinued December 23, 1918.
28 We desire especially to acknowledge the hearty cooperation accorded us by Surg. Gen. W. C. Braisted, United States Navy, and
42Surg. Gen. Rupert Blue, United States Public Health Service, and
42the sympathetic understanding of the officers in these bureaus, par4ticularly Lieut. Commander J. R. Phelps, of the Bureau of Medicine
4and Surgery, United States Navy, and Assistant Surgeon Generals
51J. W. Schereschewsky and R. H. Creel, United States Public Health
Service. We are furthermore particularly indebted to the late Surgeon
Donald Currie, United States Public Health Service, in command of
5 the United States Quarantine Station on Gallups Island, for many;courtesiesand facilities. Toward the close of the study, Dr. Currie
5contracted influenza, complicated with pneumonia, and died. His
9tassistants, Acting Assistant Surgeons F. X. Crawford and E. M.
9(Looney, helped the work in many direct and practical ways. We are
under special obligations to Capt. John M. Edgar, district medical
aide, United States Navy, and his able associate, Surgeon W. M.
Bryan, United States Public Health Service, sanitary inspector
of the first naval district, for practical assistance, which made
it possible to carry on many details of the experiments. It
is a pleasure also to acknowledge the cooperation we had
From Capt. N. S. Blackwood, Medical Corps, United States Navy,
in command of the naval hospital at Chelsea, and to his,fficient executive surgeon, Commander J. M. Brister, Medical
Dorps, United States Navy.. We were freely given the time and
experience of Lieut. Commander L. W. McGuire, Medical Corps,
]Submitted for publication May, 1919.
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