WHO WAS WALTER REED?
Dr. PIERCE: Walter Reed was an Army doctor. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine at age 17, the youngest person ever to graduate from there. He went to New York City and actually got another medical degree from Bellevue Hospital and joined the Army. He spent about 15 years out on the American frontier and then about 1893, was brought back to Washington to be a professor in what was called the Army Medical School. He was a professor at that school for several years. And in 1900, the surgeon general sent him to Cuba to study yellow fever. And in the course of just six or seven months in an incredible set of experiments, he proved that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitos. LYDEN: I would think that as a hospital, as an Army hospital, it was always interested in what would afflict troops most, and those, of course, would be communicable diseases and wounds from the wars, as we see today with the amputees. Dr. PIERCE: Sure. LYDEN: What medical advances do you
