Sincerely yours,
Walter Reed.
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War Department, Surgeon General’s Office,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington, Dec. 21, 1901.
My dear Gorgas:
Many thanks for your October report. The November report has not been received yet, but hope to get it later. I got your kind letter of Dec. 6th. Certainly the results for October and November could hardly be beaten. I think that we should thank Heaven and be satisfied. Another experimental case of yellow fever? Look here, Mr. Sanitary Officer, if you don’t stop applying stegomyia to willing Castilians, there will be trouble yet! Carroll fairly grinned all over when I read it to him! He wishes to be very kindly remembered to you. I am glad that Dr. Finlay still finds his Tetragenus. Please remember me to him. What a splendid paper that was of Guiteras in American Medicine! I was delighted with it. Make my best regards to him, also, please. The weather here is so very cold that I long for the balminess of the Cuban atmosphere. Why men and women will persist in living in cold climates is something that I can’t possibly understand. Stay where you are. Don’t permit even the evacuation of the Island to bring you away. We need you as a defence against yellow Jack! Well, the hour is five p. m. and all have long since left the office. I must hurry home in an open street-car and thereby chill my very marrow. My best regards to Mrs. Gorgas....
With all manner of greetings for a Merry Xmas and happy 1902, believe me,
Sincerely, your friend,
Reed.
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War Department, Surgeon General’s Office,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington, Jan. 14, 1902.
My dear Gorgas: