Tag: Sanitary Commission
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The germ of laziness
Enrique Chaves-Carballo Overland Park, Kansas, United States Charles Wardell Stiles (1867-1941). Parasitologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Portrait ca. 1912. Wikimedia Commons Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation was chartered on June 1909 “to promote the well-being and to advance the civilization of the peoples of the United States and its territories and possessions and of…
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Hammond, Lincoln, and the emergence of American neurology
Jack Riggs Morgantown, West Virginia, United States Surgeon General William A. Hammond. Public domain. All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. – William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s words describe the extraordinary life of…