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Major James Carroll (June 5, 1854 – September 16, 1907) was a US Army physician. Carroll was born in England. He moved to Canada in 1874, and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1874. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1891.
- AAAS Resolution: Death of Dr. James Carroll from Yellow Fever Experimentation
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Whereas, The late Major James Carroll, M.D., USA, was the first to submit voluntarily to the bite of an infected stegomyia, and from the bite of this mosquito, suffered a severe attack of yellow fever, the effects of which led to his ultimate death, and Whereas, This was the first experimentally produced case of yellow fever leading to the present ...
Carroll's widow was awarded a pension of $125 a year by the government from the date of his death. So, too, was the widow of Dr. Jesse Lazear (1866–1900), another member of the board, who contracted and died of yellow fever early on in the investigation. Fortunately, none of the recruited volunteers died during the experiments with the mosquitoes. ...
Books
Lock, Stephen, John M. Last, and George Dunea, eds. The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 2001.
Periodicals
Pierce, John R., and James V. Writer, eds. "Solving the Mystery of Yellow Fever: The 1900 U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board." Military Medicine166 supplement (2001): 1-82.
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Major James Carroll (June 5, 1854 – September 16, 1907) was a US Army physician. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Carroll was born in England. He moved to Canada in 1874, and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1874. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1891.
USAO-DC and the D.C. Office of the Attorney General (OAG-DC). James Carroll is a forensic scientist with 24 years of experience in the analysis of firearm and ammunition evidence, who is currently serving as the assistant director of one of the largest fully accredited crime laboratories
James Carroll (author) (born 1943), American author, novelist, Roman Catholic dissident, and columnist for the Boston Globe; James Carroll (scientist) (1854–1907), American scientist; James Bernard Carroll (1856–1932), Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; James H. Carroll (c. 1876–1950), American politician
Oct 30, 2006 · The Great Fever. On September 13, 1900, thirty-four-year-old physician Jesse Lazear believed he was on the brink of a scientific breakthrough that would put an end to yellow fever, the worst...
2019 Recipient: National Institutes of Health, NIAID 10 Years of Service award. 2021 Recipient: Honorific title of Associate Scientist in recognition of exceptional achievements as a Staff Scientist in the NIAID Division of Intramural Research. Content last reviewed on August 11, 2022.
