E. L. Opie Letter to Dr. Hans Peter Andersen - August 28, 1917
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[August] 28, 1917 American Base Hospital 21 Army Post Office London. Dear Andersen - Having had with news of the laboratory I often think of them still there and wonder what they are doing. I assume that now having been doing medical work this summer. The men here are seeing a great deal of war surgery and medicine. They have other duties medical and are I think very busy. The laboratory work
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for this larger hospital is very active. Do Bill I am sorry to say a gotten diphtheria and is now in the isolation hospital when I fear they will keep him for some time. He is quite well now but finds the confines most irksome. The Sergeant in charge at the laboratory is Mr. Freiberg who took the Ph.D. degree in Botany at the University last summer. Joe is getting on well seeing many new things which appear to interest him greatly. The laboratory
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consists of two small rooms at the back of one of the grand stands of a race track. The facilities are very primitive with no gas or warming waters but there is adequate equipment and we get on very well indeed. We have a great deal of bacteriology in relation both to surgery and to medicine. The routine requires a good deal of search for typhoid, para typhoid and dysenteric organism. With so many people collected together from every part of the world we see
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many to us [ms illegible: 1 wd] unfamiliar diseases. The use of bacteriological methods in the military hospitals to prevent the spread of infectious disease is excellent. I hope you have spent a reasonably comfortable and profitable summer. I shall be much pleased to know how you are getting on. with my kind regards I am Sincerely yours E.L. Opie.
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| Title | E. L. Opie Letter to Dr. Hans Peter Andersen - August 28, 1917 |
| Creator | Opie, Eugene Lindsay |
| Source | Opie, Eugene Lindsay. E. L. Opie Letter to Dr. Hans Peter Andersen. 28 August 1917. Andersen, Hans Peter, Papers, 1909-1920. R0832. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
| Description | In this August 28, 1917, letter to his Washington University colleague Dr. Hans Andersen, E. L. Opie discusses bacteriology and describes his laboratory. Dr. Eugene Lindsay Opie operated an army medical laboratory in France during World War I. He was a physician and pathologist who served as Dean of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and is best known for his research on tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Base Hospital 21; World War, 1914-1918--Medical care; United States. Army. Medical Corps. |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | R0832 |
| Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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| Date Original | August 28, 1917 |
| Language | English |