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THE WALTER REED CHAPTER

insurgent against the rule of Spain. After the death of General Agramonte in battle, in 1872, the family moved to New York, where Aristides graduated from the College of the City of New York and received his M.D. in 1890, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. In May 1898, at the outbreak of the war with Spain, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army, and participated in the Santiago campaign of that summer. At the time of his appointment to the Yellow Fever Board, he was in Havana, making bacteriologic studies of yellow fever cases.

Major Reed was acquainted with all three of the other members of the new Board. Carroll was his close associate at the Museum, Lazear he knew through their connections with the Johns Hopkins school, and Agramonte had done work in the laboratories of the Museum. When appointed, Doctors Lazear and Agramonte were already at work on yellow fever in Cuba, where Reed had renewed his acquaintance with them in the early spring of 1900,