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Colonel B.K. Ashford, A Brief Military Medicine Historical Review
Jose E Nieves1, Kathleen M Stack1
1McDonald Army Health Center, 576 Jefferson Avenue, Fort Eustis, VA 23604.
Abstract:
Colonel (Col.) Bailey K. Ashford was a turn of the 19th century Army medical corps officer who made great contributions to military medicine in the areas of infectious disease, public health, and education. His service period spans from the Spanish American War to the early 1920s. Although not as well-known as some of his contemporaries, he is an important figure, contributing to the diagnosis and treatment of "new world hookworm" in the tropics, training medical units in World War I, and the creation of the Institute of Tropical Medicine.
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