The American Plague - Molly Caldwell Crosby [132]
Carroll’s letter to Jennie is held in the Carroll Box, as part of the Hench collection at the University of Virginia. The description of the Christmas party, the makeshift mosquito and the poem for Reed came from letters he wrote to Emilie on December 25 and 26, 1900.
A New Century
Walter Reed’s original letter to Emilie on New Year’s Eve is part of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Collection at the University of Virginia.
Blood
Details surrounding the blood inoculations came from two main sources: Truby provided some background information in his memoir, but the majority of the chapter came from John H. Andrus’s “I Became a Guinea Pig,” held in the Hench collection.
Instructions from the surgeon general came from letters exchanged between Sternberg and Reed in December 1900.
The description of Roger Post Ames was taken from Lambert’s account, as well as Paul Tate’s “Essay: Roger Post Ames,” written for Hench in 1954.
Reed’s letter to Sternberg expressing his concern for Andrus was written on January 31, 1901. Excerpts from that letter appear in Andrus’s own account, as well as the biography George M. Sternberg.
The Etiology of Yellow Fever
The account of Reed’s presentation to the Pan-American Medical Congress in Havana came from his own descriptions in family letters submitted to the Philip S. Hench collection by Blossom Reed.
The remark about Reed’s voice rising to a falsetto note when he emphasized important points was taken from Hench’s interview with Lawrence Reed on November 21, 1946. The quote about Reed as a teacher came from Captain J. Hamilton Stone’s remarks in Kelly’s book Walter Reed.
The Washington Post quote was from a clipping dated February 11, 1901, held in the Hench collection.
Retribution
Walter Reed was given military orders to report to Buffalo, New York, on September 5, 1901. Those original orders are held in the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Collection.
The account of McKinley’s assassination came from a New York Times article published on September 7, 1901. The facts of the article were also checked against Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Proceedings from the 1901 American Public Health Association meeting are held in the Hench collection under the title Public Health Papers and Reports, Volume XXVII, Presented at the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Buffalo, NY, September 16-20, 1901.
The information about Wasdin’s theory of a poisoned bullet came from a New York Times article dated September 16, 1901.
Reed’s opinion of the Guitéras experiments came from a letter written by Reed to Gorgas, May 23, 1901. The letter is held in the Walter Reed Papers at the National Library of Medicine. Reed’s disappointment in hearing about the deaths resulting from the Guitéras experiments was found in another letter to Gorgas, dated September 2, 1901, also held at the National Library of Medicine.
The account of Clara Maass’s death during the experiments came from Philip S. Hench’s personal notes, as well as a New York Times article published on August 25, 1901. James Carroll’s experiments passing blood through the Berkefeld filter were outlined in his Report to the Surgeon General, August 18, 1906, held in the Hench collection.
Reed’s frustration in being passed over for surgeon general, as well as his statements about doing something for the real benefit of humanity, were expressed in a letter to Gorgas on July 21, 1902. The letter is part of the Walter Reed Papers at the National Library of Medicine.
The description of Keewaydin and the inscription above the fireplace was relayed in a “Biographical Sketch of Walter Reed” written by Emilie Lawrence Reed, held in the Hench collection.
The quote about Reed’s failing health and his frustration over having persons