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  1. How mosquitoes stopped the growth of cities - Days Gone By

    […] at Fort Brown, Texas in 1882–84, Dr. William Crawford Gorgas and his wife fell victim to yellow fever. His wife, Marie Cook Doughty, whom he married in 1885 also […]

  2. TBT: 30,000 people from Memphis flee from epidemic - some were put off in the woods rather than enter allow entrance into Alabama - Alabama Pioneers

    […] this knowledge, Dr. William Gorgas, a native of Alabama, eradicated Yellow Fever from Havana by waging a campaign against breeding […]

  3. Amazing letter from 1854 reporting on the Yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama - Alabama Pioneers

    […] of the yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama in 1853 as they tried to determine how it started. William Crawford Gorgas, a native of Alabama, later help conquer the disease throughout the world […]

  4. Judy Stockman

    WOW

  5. Sherry Barbour Bell

    Mother had Malaria when she was little but recovered. She ran high fever and they said she would stand up in her baby bed and say “this little pig wants a drink of water”!

  6. Donna Martin Parker

    Terry was this man related to you or either a relative worked with him. I remember after your grandmother died all kinds of info and journals and volumes of info on this very thing was stored in your dads shed behind the house. We would set up there and read all the info and look at all the pictures of the mosquitos, didn’t realize at the time we were looking at history

  7. Patsy McClary Huggins

    I remember history of Dr. Gorgas as a child. Having been born and raised in Toulminville, I attended Gorgas elementary school. There was a Dr. Gaines who lived up the street (Clinton Ave.) who knew Dr. Gorgas and told wonderful stories about him. Thanks for a trip back down memory lane.

  8. Peter M. Neil

    Jerry, He was a Sewanee man in case you didn’t know. There is a building named for him, Gorgas Hall.

  9. Hale County, Alabama was part of Greene, Marengo, Perry and Tuscaloosa Counties until 1867 – Alabama Pioneers

    […] birthplace of Amelia Gayle Gorgas, wife of Gen. Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, CSA, mother of Wm. Crawford Gorgas, US Surgeon General who freed Canal Zone of yellow fever. For many years it was the home of […]

  10. Yellow Fever killed many people in Alabama – here are the years & places of most severe epidemics – Alabama Pioneers

    […] 1William Gorgas, an Alabamian is credited with cleaning up mosquito breeding grounds which spread yellow fever. […]

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