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security, Carnival (Memphis Mardi Gras)
Sedgwick
Seesel and Son’s grocery, Memphis
self-experimentation by Yellow Fever Board
self-medications for yellow fever
“serum hepatitis,”
sewer system for Memphis
Shafter, W. Rufus (General)
Shakespeare, Edward (Dr.)
Sherwood, Sergeant
shipping industry and Cuba
Siboney yellow fever epidemic
Sigsbee, Charles (Captain)
skin, transmission through
skin color from yellow fever
slave trade and yellow fever
smallpox
smell of death and decay
solar eclipse, Memphis
soldier volunteers for human experiments
Sontag, Charles G.
Soper, Fred .
South America and yellow fever
southern U.S. and yellow fever
South Memphis, evading quarantine
Spanish-American War
Spielman, Andrew
spotted fever
“squatters,”
St. Lazarus-Grace Church
St. Louis encephalitis
St. Mary’s Cathedral (Martyrs of Memphis)
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Stanley, Mr.
Stark, Major
state of emergency in Mississippi Valley
State Savings Bank, Memphis
state vs. federal rights
steamers and yellow fever
Sternberg, George M. (Surgeon General, “America’s Bacteriologist”)
background of
bacteria theory
blood experiments
children as subjects for medical testing
gonorrhea self-experimentation
Sternberg, George M. (continued)
mosquito theory
retirement of
“Round Robin” letter and
Typhoid Commission
vivisection (human experiments)
Walter Reed and
Walter Reed Memorial Association
Walter Reed’s report on mosquito theory
Yellow Fever Board (Cuba) and
Stokes, Adrian (Dr.)
strange occurrences in Memphis
“stranger’s disease,”
striped house mosquito (Aedes aegypti) . See also mosquitoes
sugar industry and Cuba
sulfur for disinfection
Surgeon General’s Library (National Library of Medicine)
swatting (attraction to) by mosquitoes
sweat baths for yellow fever
symptoms of yellow fever
Taft, William H. (Secretary of War)
Tate, R. H. (Dr.)
taxing district of the state, Memphis as
telephone, invention
temperance movement and Carnival (Memphis Mardi Gras)
Tennessee Club, Memphis
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Ten Years War
Thecla (Sister)
Theiler, Max
tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). See also mosquitoes
tires as homes for mosquitoes
Tokyo trials
trade and transportation hub, Memphis
travel adaptability of mosquitoes
treatments (ineffective) for yellow fever
trentina (thirty days)
tropical medicine
Truby, Albert (Dr.)
background of
Jesse Lazear and
Juan Guitéras and
mosquito theory
Walter Reed and
William E. Dean (Patient XY) and
Yellow Fever Board (Cuba) and
tuberculosis
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Turner, G.P.M. (Attorney General)
Twain, Mark
typhoid
Ulks
United States (present day). See also mosquitoes; mosquito theory; yellow fever
comeback of yellow fever
epidemic
vaccine for yellow fever
Yellow Fever Commission, Nigeria ()
University of Havana
University of Maryland
University of the City of New York
University of Virginia
unrecorded cases of yellow fever, Memphis
“unworthy,” “worthy” perished for the
upper vs. lower class in Memphis
urban yellow fever
U.S. Army Medical Corps
U.S. capital, moved from Philadelphia to Washington .C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USS Maine
USS Yale
vaccines
Vaughan, Victor Clarence (Dr.)
virulency of yellow fever
virus discovery
viruses
Viruses, Plagues, and History (Oldstone)
virus from mosquito to human to mosquito
vivisection (human experiments)
volunteers for human experiments
vomito negro (black vomit). See also yellow fever
Walsh, Mr. (county undertaker)
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Walter Reed General Hospital
Walter Reed Memorial Association
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Waring, George (Colonel)
“Waring System,”
Warner, E. .
Warner, Lena Angevine
“war of the doctors,”
Warren, William
Wasdin, Eugene
Washington, George (President)
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington Post
Weatherwalks, Edward
Welch, William (Dr.)
West, Clyde .
West Indies and yellow fever
West Nile
White, W. A. (Dr.)