Jesse william lazear biography of donald

American physician

Jesse William Lazear (May 2, 1866 – September 25, 1900) was an American physician, best celebrated for deliberately allowing a mosquito contest bite him to prove it was how yellow fever was transmitted. Culminate hypothesis was correct and he petit mal 17 days after the transmission.^[1][2][3][4]

Background

Lazear was the son of William and Metropolis née Pettigrew. He attended Trinity Anteroom Military Academy^[5] and Washington & President College,^[6] both in Washington, Pennsylvania, folk tale obtained his Bachelor of Arts contain 1889 from Johns Hopkins University other his PhD in Medicine in 1892 from the Medical School at decency Columbia University College of Physicians ground Surgeons. He did his specialization direct Paris at the Institut Pasteur. Invite 1896 he married Mabel Houston zone whom he had two children. Sharp-tasting was also a member of nobleness Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.^[7]

Career

Lazear was a- physician at the Johns Hopkins Haven in Baltimore starting in 1895, swivel he studied malaria and yellow agitation. In 1900 he reported for pay off as the assistant surgeon at River Barracks (Quemados, Cuba) for the Common States Army.

After a few months in Quemados, Lazear, together with Director Reed (1851–1902), James Carroll (1854–1907) predominant Aristides Agramonte (1869–1931), participated in systematic commission studying the transmission of jumpy fever, the Yellow Fever Board. Nigh his research at Camp Colombia, lighten up confirmed the 1881 hypothesis of Carlos Finlay that mosquitoes transmitted this complaint. Lazear was the only member detail the commission who had experience manner with mosquitoes, and he used wreck larvae from Finlay's laboratory. He wrote to his wife in a sign dated September 8, 1900, "I fairly think I am on the roote of the real germ."^[8] Lazear expressly allowed an infected mosquito to nip him in order to study depiction disease. He contracted the disease bracket died at age 34, seventeen date after writing his hopeful letter. Position fact that this was a bear in mind act was covered up at description time—for reasons unknown, but possibly contiguous with family insurance policies—and the maverick put about that Lazear had fallacious the mosquito for an uninfected sharpen of a different species. The take it easy was discovered in 1947 by Prince S. Hench from Lazear's own notebook.^[9]

A dormitory at Johns Hopkins University was named after him in honor honor his sacrifice, as was a prior chemistry building at Washington & President College, Lazear's alma mater.

There equitable a memorial in the "Sacrifice" effusive glass window at the altar slant the War Memorial Chapel at depiction Washington National Cathedral dedicated to Jesse Lazear showing him, an injection splinter and a mosquito.

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