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Jun 3, 2018 · Abstract. The arrival of bubonic plague in San Francisco in 1900 has become a pivotal case study in the history of American public health. The presence of plague remained contested for months as the evidence provided by the federal bacteriologist Joseph Kinyoun of the Marine Hospital Service was rejected, his laboratory methods disputed and his person ridiculed.
Oct 11, 2022 · Epidemiologist Joseph J. Kinyoun was one of the few medical professionals who saw the bubonic plague coming. Kinyoun, a pioneering bacteriologist, had heard about the plague outbreak in Honolulu ...
Dec 8, 2016 · The Kinyoun Lecture series was established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1979 to honor Dr. Joseph James Kinyoun, who, in 1887, founded the Hygienic Laboratory, from which the National Institutes of Health (NIH) evolved. The free public lectures are held annually in the fall on the NIH campus in Bethesda ...
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Hamilton quickly set up the nation’s first federal bacteriology laboratory in a museum room and placed the 26-year-old newcomer in charge of it (2, 28, 29). Kinyoun opened up shop in August 1887 (2, 28, 29)—apparently on August 27 (33), the beginning of the NIH. Kinyoun’s 16-year MHS career corresponded with the emergence and growth of ...
Joseph James Kinyoun was an American physician and the founder of the United States' Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health. Introduction Joseph J. Kinyoun Biography Early life Career Hygienic Laboratory (1887–1896) San Francisco Quarantine station (1899–1901) Later career
Bacteriologist Joseph J. Kinyoun (1860-1919), a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, was the first director of the Hygienic Laboratory from 1887 to 1899. He helped design the Kinyoun-Francis sterilizer, a portable steam disinfecting apparatus used in the quarantine service, and was instrumental in introducing the ...
