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THE WALTER REED CHAPTER American Association of Physicians, meeting in Washington in July,"49 and before the Society of American Bacteriologists, meeting in Chicago at the end of the year. 50 In addition, he published in the Journal of Hygiene, a British periodical, a summary article of recent researches concerning the etiology, propagation, and prevention of yellow fever by the United States Army Commission. 51

In these various papers and publications, he outlined in detail the experimental procedures followed and the results obtained, demonstrating to all who heard and read that both in its occurrences and its nonoccurrences at Camp Lazear, "yellow fever strictly obeyed the behests of the experimenters." Dr. Reed resumed his teaching, while continuing as Curator of the Medical Museum, but by the fall of 1902, it became evident that his strength was failing. In November, he suffered an attack which was diagnosed as appendicitis. On the 17th, at the Army General Hospital at Washington Barracks, he under-went an operation for removal of a ruptured appendix. "Major Reed received the accepted treatment" of that period, according to Dr. Charles Stanley White, and "was in most competent hands." 52 Everything was done for him that medical experience dictated and the personal solicitude of affectionate association could suggest— but on 22 November 1902, Walter Reed, who "gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, Yellow Fever," 53 being but 51 years of age, died, to live among the medical immortals.