THE ARMED FORCES EPIDEMIOLOGICAL BOARD
The Histories of the Commissions
Theodore E. Woodward, M.D.
Editor
Contents
Foreword by The Surgeons General of the United States Army,
United States Navy, the United States Air Force
Section 1 Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases
Incorporating Three Other Commissions
William S. Jordan, Jr., M.D.
Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases
Commission on Air-Borne Infection
Commission on Meningococcal Meningitis
Commission on Pneumonia
Section 2 Commission on Influenza
Gordon N. Meiklejohn, M.D.
Section 3 Commission on Epidemiological Survey
Dan Crozier, M.D.
Section 4 Commission on Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Diseases
Floyd W. Denny, Jr., M.D., and Harold B. Houser, M.D.
Commission on Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections
Commission on Streptococcal Diseases and Commission
on Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Diseases
Section 5 Commission on Enteric Infections
Mary Jane Wood, B.S., R.N., and Richard B. Hornick, M.D.
Section 6 Commission on Parasitic Diseases
Paul C. Beaver, Ph.D.
Section 7 Commissions on Immunization and Rickettsial Diseases
Theodore E. Woodward, M.D.
Commission on Immunization
Commission on Rickettsial Diseases
A publication of the
Borden Institute
Office of the Surgeon General
Department of the Army, United States of America
Editor in Chief
Brigadier General Russ Zajtchuk, MC, U.S. Army
Director, Borden Institute
Commanding General
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Professor of Surgery
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Officer in Charge and Managing Editor
Colonel Ronald F. Bellamy, MC, U.S. Army
Borden Institute
Associate Professor of Military Medicine,
Associate Professor of Surgery,
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
1994
The Coat of Arms
1818
Medical Department of the Army
A 1976 etching by Vassil Ekimov of an
original color print that appeared in
The Military Surgeon, Vol XLI, No 2, 1917
LORRAINE B. DAVIS
SENIOR EDITOR
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Woodward, Theodore E. (Theodore Englar), 1914-
The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board :History of the
Commissions / Theodore E. Woodward.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. United States. Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
2. Epidemiology-Research-United States-History-20thcentury.
I. Title
UH453.W66. 1994
614.4`0973--dc20
94-37993
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