Gorgas

[ gawr-guhs ]

noun

1. William Crawford, 1854–1920, U.S. physician and epidemiologist: chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal 1904–13; surgeon general of the U.S. Army 1914–18.

Gorgas

/ gôr′gəs /

1. American army surgeon who directed programs to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Havana, Cuba (1901), and in the Panama Canal Zone (1904–1906). The mosquito had been shown by Dr. Walter Reed and others to be responsible for the transmission of yellow fever.

Example Sentences

I read between the lines of Col. Gorgas's letters that he would stand by me, and he did.

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The report of Surgeon-Major Gorgas is very pleasant reading.

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Colonel Gorgas also found conditions which challenged his best efforts.

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The views of Colonel Gorgas upon the future of the white race in the tropics deserve quotation.

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Colonel Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer, was the only important official of the old rgime held over.

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