HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by McCoy, G. W. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by McCoy, G. W.

History of Leprosy in the United States¹

It is an honor and a privilege to have been invited to present this subject at a meeting honoring Colonel Craig; it is especially agreeable to me to participate actively because there has been a long-standing personal friendship between Colonel Craig and myself which began when we were both very young officers in our respective Federal Services—he on duty at the Lettermann General Hospital in San Francisco and I at the United States Marine Hospital in the same city. I remember especially well the interest he already had in differentiating the diarrheal diseases that came into the military hospital from the Philippine Expedition and how generous he was in sharing his information with me.

Dictionary definitions of history are: "A systematic record of past events, especially the record of events in which man has taken part"; "Past events in general, considered as accomplished facts, or as material for record."

¹ The Charles Franklin Craig Lecture of the American Society of Tropical Medicine.

Delivered at the thirty-third annual meeting in New Orleans, November 30 to December 3, 1937.