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at the Johns Hopkins University in 1889. He took his medical degree at Columbia University in 1892, served at the Bellevue Hospital in New York for 2 years, and studied in Europe for a year, including time in Italy and a period at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Back in the United States, he became bacteriologist on the staff of the Johns Hopkins University and assistant in clinical microscopy in the medical school, until he was selected by the Surgeon General's Office to go to Cuba as a bacteriologist at Camp Columbia, where he arrived in February 1900.

Aristides Agramonte (fig. 44), the youngest member of the Board and the only member who was an "immune" to the disease which was to be investigated, was born in Puerto Principe, Cuba, in 1868, the son of a Cuban patriot