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**THE ARMED FORCES EPIDEMIOLOGICAL BOARD**

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***The Histories of the Commissions***

Theodore E. Woodward, M.D.Editor

 

**Contents**

Foreword by    The Surgeons General of the United States Army,                        United States Navy, the United States Air Force

Preface

Section 1          Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases                         Incorporating Three Other Commissions* **                      William S. Jordan, Jr., M.D.*

       *                     *Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases

                            Commission on Air-Borne Infection

                            Commission on Meningococcal Meningitis

                            Commission on Pneumonia

Section 2          Commission on Influenza*                        Gordon N. Meiklejohn, M.D.*

Section 3         Commission on Epidemiological Survey                        *Dan Crozier, M.D.*

Section 4         Commission on Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Diseases                        *Floyd W. Denny, Jr., M.D., and Harold B. Houser, M.D.*

                            Commission on Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections

                            Commission on Streptococcal Diseases and Commission                               on Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Diseases

Section 5          Commission on Enteric Infections   *                        Mary Jane Wood, B.S., R.N., and Richard B. Hornick, M.D.*

Section 6          Commission on Parasitic Diseases*  **                     Paul C. Beaver, Ph.D.*

Section 7          Commissions on Immunization and Rickettsial Diseases*                        Theodore E. Woodward, M.D.*

                               Commission on Immunization

                               Commission on Rickettsial Diseases

A publication of the

**Borden Institute***Office of the Surgeon GeneralDepartment of the Army, United States of America*

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Editor in ChiefBrigadier General Russ Zajtchuk, MC, U.S. Army*Director, Borden InstituteCommanding GeneralU.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel CommandProfessor of SurgeryF. Edward Hebert School of MedicineUniformed Services University of Health Sciences*

Officer in Charge and Managing EditorColonel Ronald F. Bellamy, MC, U.S. Army*Borden InstituteAssociate Professor of Military Medicine,Associate Professor of Surgery,F. Edward Hebert School of MedicineUniformed Services University of Health Sciences*

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1994

 

The Coat of Arms1818Medical Department of the Army

A 1976 etching by Vassil Ekimov of anoriginal color print that appeared in*The Military Surgeon*, Vol XLI, No 2, 1917

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LORRAINE B. DAVISSENIOR EDITOR

 

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Woodward, Theodore E. (Theodore Englar), 1914-       The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board :History of the    Commissions / Theodore E. Woodward.           p. cm.       Includes bibliographical references.       1.  United States.  Armed ForcesEpidemiological Board.    2.  Epidemiology-Research-United States-History-20thcentury.    I.  Title    UH453.W66.  1994    614.4'0973--dc20

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