The book Howard Taylor Ricketts was written by author Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois At Chicago) Iciu Here you can read free online of Howard Taylor Ricketts book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Howard Taylor Ricketts a good or bad book?
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He determined to investigate typhus, then endemic in Mexico, and in December 1909, journeyed to Mexico City, prepared to study its cause and mode of transmission. He was accompanied by Dr. Russell M. Wilder, now of the Mayo Clinic, as a volun- tary assistant. As a result of his labors the mode of spread of typhus fever from man to man by way of the body louse (pedicu- losis vestimentorum) was demonstrated in- controvertably. In addition he found an organism of the Rickettsia group in the blood ...of typhus fever patients and in the fluids of infected body lice. His work concluded and his reports written — another milestone was erected in the progress of medical science. Ricketts unfortunately contracted typhus fever, and died of its ravages on May 3, 1910, a sacri- fice to human welfare. On May sixth, three days following his death, an unsigned edi- torial appeared in the Chicago Tribune^ in part, as follows: "The death of Dr. Howard T, Ricketts adds another name to the long honor roll of science.
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