Showing posts with label Leonard Wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonard Wood. Show all posts

Friday, October 13, 2000

Saturday, October 13, 1900. Two Army physicians meet and end up saving the lives of millions.

Major General Leonard Wood, U.S. Military Governor of Cuba and a physician met with Major Walter Reed, U.S. Army surgeon, and authorized further funding of experiments to establish that yellow fever was spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.


Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. probably disputes that.  Probably Tylenol causes yellow fever.

Anyhow, while Secretary of Defense Hegseth may be upset with the Army being "woke", this wokeness lead to one of the most significant medical developments in history.

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Friday, October 12, 1900. The USS Holland commissioned.