Letter from United States Army, Office of the Surgeon General to Michael Heidelberger

Letter from United States Army, Office of the Surgeon General to Michael Heidelberger

Contributor(s):
United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Surgeon General
Heidelberger, Michael
Publication:
Produced: 3 January 1918
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
World War I
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Syphilis
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Heidelberger was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corp of the U.S. Army, and assigned to the Section on Combating Venereal Diseases. His duty there was to conduct research on anti-syphilitics, research which dovetailed closely with the work on the chemotherapy of syphilis he had been conducting with Walter A. Jacobs at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He was stationed at the Rockefeller Institute, his home institution, which during the war provided training to army physicians in laboratory technique. Heidelberger was under the command of the Institute's director, Simon Flexner, who was also the chief officer of the Section on Combating Venereal Diseases.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584940X39 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
DHBBCW
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X39
Archival Collection:
The Michael Heidelberger Papers (Profiles in Science)