Malaria and Yellow fever
Dr. Alexander Lambert motivated Theodore Roosevelt to leave problems to William Gorges.
"You are facing one of the greatest decision of your career. If you fall back on the old methods.. you will fail, just as the French. If you back Gorges you will get your canal."
- Lambert saying to Theodore Roosevelt. American Experience
" Get behind Gorges and give him the authority and sources!"
- Theodore Roosevelt
William Crawford Gorges, one of the leading Yellow Fever doctor in Panama, making himself a recognized man in recovering the harsh diseases. As the years passed, he examined and discovered that mosquitoes caused these diseases, ordering to kill them across the panama Canal. The process started and as time passed, the Yellow Fever cases had fallen more than 90%.
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"Kill the mosquitoes.... and Yellow Fever would disappear." |