“The work of Reed and Gorgas at Havana had apparently made little impression upon the official mind.”
William Crawford Gorgas, His Life and Work, Gorgas and Hendrick, 1924
William Crawford Gorgas, His Life and Work, Gorgas and Hendrick, 1924
~ Panama 1885 ~
"In all the world there is not perhaps concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung heap of physical and moral abomination.
The Isthmus is a damp, tropical jungle, intensely hot, swarming with mosquitoes, snakes, alligators, scorpions, and centipedes; the home, even as Nature made it,
of yellow fever, typhus and dysentery.”
James Anthony Froude, 1885
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"In all the world there is not perhaps concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung heap of physical and moral abomination.
The Isthmus is a damp, tropical jungle, intensely hot, swarming with mosquitoes, snakes, alligators, scorpions, and centipedes; the home, even as Nature made it,
of yellow fever, typhus and dysentery.”
James Anthony Froude, 1885
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“There were two seasons in Panama: the wet season, mid-April to mid-December, when people would die of yellow fever in four or five days, and the dry season mid-December to mid-April when it took a much shorter time to die, usually from 24 to 36 hours.”
Physician to the World, The Life of William C. Gorgas, John Gibson, 1950
Physician to the World, The Life of William C. Gorgas, John Gibson, 1950
“The American government… had failed just as completely as the French to recognize that disease was the most formidable obstacle in its path. A more shocking instance of the inability to profit from the mistakes of others is hardly recorded in history.”
William Crawford Gorgas, Gorgas and Hendrick, 1924
William Crawford Gorgas, Gorgas and Hendrick, 1924
"There are three diseases here - yellow fever, malaria and cold feet."
John Frank Stevens
Chief Engineer, Panama Canal, 1905
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John Frank Stevens
Chief Engineer, Panama Canal, 1905
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