Walter Reed

Born

Sep 13, 1851

Received his medical degree

1869

Commissioned an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army

1875

Assigned as professor of bacteriology and clinical microscopy at the Army Medical School in Washington

1893

Reed was appointed head of the commission of U.S. Army medical officers to investigate the cause and mode of transmission of yellow fever in american troops in Cuba.

1900

eed and his associates decided to concentrate upon determining the mode of transmissioon.

1901

. Carlos Juan Finlay first advanced the theory that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes (he blamed it on the Stegomyia fasciata, later known as the Aedes aegypti) and proved it by experiments, but physicians generally did not credit the possibility.

Returned to Washington, D.C.

1901

resumed his teaching duties at the Army Medical School

Dies

Nov 22, 1902