American Decades

Letter

By: Walter Reed

Date: September 25, 1900

Source: Reed, Walter. Letter to Jefferson Randolph Kean, September 25, 1900. University of Virginia Library. Available online at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/fever-browseprint?id=0... ; website home page: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu (accessed March 14, 2003)

About the Author: Walter Reed (1851–1902) was born in Belroi, Virginia, and received two doctorates of medicine, the first from the University of Virginia in 1869 and the second from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City in 1870. He preferred research to the routine of private practice. His books and articles on typhoid and yellow fever established his reputation and led the U.S. Army to appoint him head of a team of researchers...