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Gorgas Memorial Memorial Institute Proposed at Panama Bay
A memorial to Brig. Gen. William C. Gorgas is proposed as the Institute for Research in Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine to be established at Balboa near the Panama Canal. The international project aims to advance tropical medicine with laboratories, scholarships, and a world class library, beginning research by January 1, 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willam Crawford Gorgas
United States Army
Institute For
Gorgas
Balboa
Pacific
Panama Canal
General Gorgas
Gorgass
Tropics
North American
Central
South America
Panama
W. C. Bralsted
Pan American Union
William C. Gorgas
West Indies
Cuba
Ecuador
Peru
Africa
Institute For Research In
Study of
Preventive Medicine
Franklin Martin
American College of Surgeons
London
Liverpool Schools of
Gorgas Memorial
Santo Tomas Hospital
Memorial Institute
Health Department of the Republic
United States
Rowe
Pagama
Santo ‘Tomag Hospital