THE RELIEF OF DR. CARROLL'S WIDOW

In Dr. Goldberger's excellent monograph on yellow fever the work of the Army board in Cuba, headed by Major Walter Reed, is summarized in a single pithy sentence. Referring to the demonstration of the transmission of yellow fever infection by mosquitoes, he says that it "converted a discredited hypothesis into an established doctrine." The positive demonstration of this fact has opened up a wide field of sanitary accomplishment. The epoch-making victory over yellow fever of Gorgas in Havana, his sanitary regeneration of the Isthmus of Panama, White's brilliant results in the New Orleans epidemic of 1905, and Kean's recent extensive campaign in Cuba are all the direct results of the confirmation of Finlay's theory by the work of Reed, Lazear, Carroll and Agramonte in 1900. With a single exception, the members of this gallant band have all perished in the prime of their vigor and usefulness. Dr. Agramonte, the sole