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Aan iHajor Salter Eeeli, JSI. ®. irihii nature has ' worh to be dour site ereiifes a (leiiitis to do it. — Emekson. ALTER REED was liorn in Gloucester County, Virginia, September 13, 1851. His parents were descendants of our English Colonial pioneers iM fc and he inherited from them the perseverance, self-control, and force of character which marks so significantly those early struggles in the Colonies, When the boy was six years old he began his education at a private school in Farmville, Prince Edward County. His keen desire for knowledge was manifested in his untiring efforts and his rapid advancement. At the age of 16, Walter Reed entered the University of Virginia and two years later, in 1867, was graduated, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. A few months after graduation he matriculated as a medical student at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, receiving his M. D. a year later. The next few vears were spent by the young doctor in various New York hospitals and as a district physician to one of the poorest districts in the city. The work afforded him a varied field of experience hut permitted little time for studv and so, after serious reflection. Dr. Reed decided to give up his civilian life and applied for entrance into the Medical Corps of the Army. In 1875 he l)rilliantly passed his entrance examination, received his com- mission of First Lieutenant, and his appointment at Willets Point. New York Harbor. The following year he was transferred to Camp Lowell, Arizona, but before he left was married to Miss Emilie Lawrence, of Murfreesboro. North Carolina, who shared with him the hardships of that western frontier life. There followed for the Reed family eighteen years of garrison life, including fifteen changes of station — years of training in constant daily, unselfish de- votion to the needs of others, often amid most uncongenial surroundings — a iDroad training which prepared Lieutenant Reed quite unconsciously for the great work in store for him. While stationed in Baltimore, in 1881, Captahi Reed, he had recently been promoted, pursued his studies at Johns Hopkins Universitv. His work there included courses in pathology, bacteriology, and research work, as well as general medicine and surgery. In 1893, when ordered to duty in the Surgeon General ' s Office, he was promoted to the rank of Major and appointed Curator of the Army Medical Museum and Professor of Bac- teriology and Clinical Microscopy in the United States Army Medical School. Major Reed ' s years of service in Washington, which were notable because of contributions to the scientific world, not only in the capacity of an instructor but also as a pioneer in new fields of research work, finally culminated; in that momentous expedition to Cuba in 1900, Yellow fever had broken out L X923 [ 19 I
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