Our Times, 1900-1925: The turn of the centuryCharles Scribner's Sons, 1926 |
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... Gorgas 435 Governor Wood begins his task of cleaning up Cuba - a cartoon 436 A typical town in the interior of Panama A plaza in Panama before and after being paved Surgeon - General George M. Sternberg Major - General Leonard Wood in ...
... Gorgas 435 Governor Wood begins his task of cleaning up Cuba - a cartoon 436 A typical town in the interior of Panama A plaza in Panama before and after being paved Surgeon - General George M. Sternberg Major - General Leonard Wood in ...
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... Gorgas had not yet demonstrated that mosquitoes may be eliminated from any portion of the earth's surface and man's only weapon against malaria was quinine . Neither these facts nor the fundamental fact underlying them was known ; and ...
... Gorgas had not yet demonstrated that mosquitoes may be eliminated from any portion of the earth's surface and man's only weapon against malaria was quinine . Neither these facts nor the fundamental fact underlying them was known ; and ...
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... Gorgas's discovery and practice of the means of exterminating it — by 1925 , these two pioneers of sci- ence and sanitation had already reached whatever is science's equivalent of canonization . Theirs were only two of the many advances ...
... Gorgas's discovery and practice of the means of exterminating it — by 1925 , these two pioneers of sci- ence and sanitation had already reached whatever is science's equivalent of canonization . Theirs were only two of the many advances ...
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... Gorgas began his work of ex- terminating the disease . Not only in these larger respects was Doctor Gorgas's work the more impor- tant . It was Doctor Gorgas's achievement , more than any one act of govern- ments or engineers , that ...
... Gorgas began his work of ex- terminating the disease . Not only in these larger respects was Doctor Gorgas's work the more impor- tant . It was Doctor Gorgas's achievement , more than any one act of govern- ments or engineers , that ...
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... of death from these enemies as some- thing inevitable became a part of the national philosophy . They pursued methods of warfare so surely fatal , had MAJOR GORGAS 433 weapons and arts of preparation and assault 432 A MODERN WARRIOR •
... of death from these enemies as some- thing inevitable became a part of the national philosophy . They pursued methods of warfare so surely fatal , had MAJOR GORGAS 433 weapons and arts of preparation and assault 432 A MODERN WARRIOR •
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