Gorgas

[ gawr-guhs ]

/ ˈgɔr gəs /

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noun

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.

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How to use Gorgas in a sentence

I read between the lines of Col. Gorgas's letters that he would stand by me, and he did.
The Supplies for the Confederate Army|Caleb Huse
The report of Surgeon-Major Gorgas is very pleasant reading.
Experiments on Animals|Stephen Paget
Colonel Gorgas also found conditions which challenged his best efforts.
The Panama Canal|Frederic Jennings Haskin
The views of Colonel Gorgas upon the future of the white race in the tropics deserve quotation.
The Panama Canal and its Makers|Vaughan Cornish

Colonel Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer, was the only important official of the old rgime held over.
The Panama Canal|Frederic Jennings Haskin

Scientific definitions for Gorgas

Gorgas

[ gôr′gəs ]

William Crawford 1854-1920

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.