Excerpt from Yellow Fever: A Compilation of Various Publications, Results of the Work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission
It is given to but few scientific men to lay bare a secret of nature materially affecting the prosperity of nations, and the lives, fortunes, and happiness of thousands. Fewer still succeed in so quickly convincing brother scientists and men in authority of the truth of their discoveries that their own eyes behold the glorious result of their labor.
Of the 51 years of Walter Reed"s industrious, blameless life, 12 only were spent in the study of the special branch of science in which he became famous, but his name now stands with those of Jenner, Lister, and Morton as among the benefactors of humanity.
Walter Reed was born in Gloucester County, Va., September 13, 1851, the son of the Rev. Lemuel Sutton Reed and Pharaba White, his wife.
The circumstances of his family were modest, and some of the years of his boyhood were spent in a much troubled section of the south during the great Civil War. He acquired, however, a good preliminary education, and at an age when most boys are still in the schoolroom he began the study of medicine at the University of Virginia, graduating as M.D. in 1869, when only 17 years old.
A second medical degree was received later from Bellevue Medical College, New York, and then came terms of service in the Brooklyn City Hospital, and the City Hospital, Blackwell"s Island.
Before the age of 21 Reed was a district physician in New York City, and at 22 one of the five inspectors of the board of health of Brooklyn.
He entered the Army of the United States as assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant, in 1875, and for the next 18 years, with the usual varying fortunes of a young medical officer of the Army, he served in Arizona, Nebraska, Dakota, and in the Southern and Eastern States.
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