Lazear

[ luh-zeer ]

noun

1. Jesse William, 1866–1900, U.S. physician and bacteriologist.

Example Sentences

Of these men one, Dr. Jesse Lazear, gave up his life to prove experimentally that yellow fever was caused by mosquitoes.

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Lazear was bitten at his work, and died in the agony of yellow-fever convulsions, a martyr and a hero if ever there was one.

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In all, ten cases of experimental yellow fever, caused by the bite of infected mosquitoes were developed in Camp Lazear.

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Dr. Lazear left a wife and two young children, one of whom he had never seen.

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That was the final, complete and crowning demonstration which made Camp Lazear forever famous in the annals of humanity.

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