Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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I N a program which offers opportunities for advanced study and research, Drs. Snyder, Ipsen, Murray, Chang, Bell, Tarizzo, and Hadden, together with other members of the Department, pursue those elusive and minute agents of disease •—bacteria, rickettsiae and viruses. Dr. Snyder, as well as being Dean of the School of Public Health, is also Head of the Department of Micro¬ biology. In addition to principles of bacteriology and immunology, the Department gives instruction in public health laboratory procedures. In the latter course students find themselves inoculating em- bryonated eggs and animals by various routes, preparing diagnostic antigens and performing neutralization and red agglutination tests. Later on, they absorb the importance of rickettsial and viral diseases by doing tissue culture, animal inocu¬ lation and serologic technics. This leads to such fascinating activities as growing one’s own fleas! With all these bacteria and viruses floating around, large signs stating Stay Out Unless Im¬ munized” are a necessary protection and a warm welcome can be found on the other side of the door. Research methods are not only taught but are practiced to an extensive degree. Research activi¬ ties involve the staff in such far-distant places as Saudi Arabia, where an extensive program in the treatment and prevention of trachoma is being DR. CHANG AND DR. MURRAY conducted, and Bosnia, Yugoslavia, where con¬ tinued field studies of typhus are being done. At No. 1 Shattuck studies in the determination of the nutritive requirements of cells in tissue culture are being made. The agar slants and nutrient broths of former years have been succeeded by the roller culture tube and the embryonated egg. The Department of Microbiology works closely with the Departments of Epidemiology and Trop¬ ical Public Health in areas of common research and interest. Furthermore, by arrangement with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, students may study in the Institutes of Laborato- ties, which include the biological laboratory, the Wasserman laboratory and the diagnostic labor¬ atory. DR. MURRAY AND DR. BELL 29

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Standing —Dr. Chang, Miss McComb, Dr. Bell, Miss Roberts, Mr. Vinson. Seated —Dr. Snyder, Mrs. Forbes, Dr. Murray. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY John C. Snyder, A.B., M.D., Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department Edward S. Murray, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Asso¬ ciate Professor of Microbiology and Assistant Medical Adviser to the Department of Hygiene Johannes Ipsen, C.A., C.M., Dr. Med., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Public Health and Su¬ perintendent of the Institute of Laboratories, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Robert S. Chang, S.B., M.D., S.D. in Hyg., Assistant Professor of Microbiology Samuel D. Bell, Jr., A.B., M.D., M.P.H., As¬ sistant Professor of Microbiology Robert B. Pennell, S.M., Ph.D., Lecturer on Immunology James A. McComb, D.V.M., Instructor in Public Health Immunology and Director of Biologic Laboratories, Department of Public Health of Massachusetts John M. Newell, A.B., S.D., Instructor in Pub¬ lic Health Immunology Catharine Atwood, A.B.,. Instructor in Public Health Bacteriology Dorothy E. McComb, S.B., Assistant in Micro¬ biology John W. Vinson, S.B., Assistant in Microbiology Robert A. MacCready, S.B., M.D., Associate in Bacteriology and Immunology and Assistant Director of Diagnostic Laboratories, Depart¬ ment of Public Health of Massachusetts 28

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