James Carroll (scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Carroll (scientist)

American physician

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1854

Place of Birth: Woolwich, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1907

Profession: military physician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About James Carroll (scientist)

  • Major James Carroll (June 5, 1854 – September 16, 1907) was a US Army physician. Carroll was born in England.
  • He moved to Canada in 1874, and enlisted in the U.S.
  • Army in 1874.
  • He graduated with an M.D.
  • from the University of Maryland in 1891.
  • After graduating Carroll studied bacteriology under Dr.
  • William H.
  • Welch at Johns Hopkins Hospital and assisted Walter Reed in pathology laboratories.
  • Carroll and Reed later worked together at the Army Medical Museum in Washington and the Columbia University Medical School.
  • In 1900 he served as an American physician and a member of the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba, along with Walter Reed, Jesse William Lazear, and Aristides Agramonte.
  • He and Lazear subjected themselves to the bite of infectious mosquitoes to test the theory that mosquitoes were carriers of yellow fever.
  • Lazear died, but Carroll recovered and completed the last, official experiments of the Yellow Fever Commission.
  • After a trip to Washington D.C., Carroll returned to Cuba for additional studies in which he proved that blood from active cases of yellow fever contained sub-microscopic infective agents.
  • In 1904, with permission from Army Surgeon-General Robert Maitland O'Reilly, Carroll tested an oral typhoid fever vaccine on himself and 12 other volunteers from the military.
  • Due to faulty vaccine preparation by lab personnel, seven men came down with the disease.
  • They all survived, but the Office of the Surgeon General did not publicize the results.
  • The yellow fever infection Carroll contracted eventually killed him.
  • Carroll was the inaugural president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.

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