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It was suggested that we subject ourselves to the same risk and this suggestion was accepted by Dr. Reed and Dr. Lazear. It became necessary for Dr. Reed to return to the United States and the work was begun by Dr. Lazear, who applied infected mosquitoes to a number of persons, himself included, without result.
Lazear fell a victim to his enthusiasm and died in the cause of science and humanity. His death occurred on September 25, after an illness of six days' duration.
Here an experimental sanitary station was established under the complete control of the senior member of this board. This station was named Camp Lazear, in honor of our late colleague, Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, Acting Assistant Surgeon U.S.A., who died of yellow fever, while courageously investigating the causation of this disease.
"How should you?" he said, in a changed tone. "We Americans set up monuments to our destroyers, not to our preservers, of life. Nobody knows about Walter Reed and James Carroll and Jesse Lazear not even the American Government, which they officially served except a few doctors and dried-up entomologists like myself. Forgive me. I didn't mean to deliver a lecture."
Reed at "Camp Lazear" upon four individuals, who freely consented to it; and in three of the four a typical attack of yellow fever resulted from the blood injection.
Lazear himself was thoroughly convinced that this was the direct cause of his attack. The inference by Dr.
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