Percy Moreau Ashburn

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Percy Moreau Ashburn (born July 28, 1872 in Batavia , Ohio , † August 20, 1940 in Washington, DC ) was an American medical doctor and military doctor in the US Army .

Percy Moreau Ashburn (1903)

Life

Ashburn was 1,893 at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia Dr. med. PhD. He served in the Army Medical Department and was deployed in China, Japan and the Philippines, among others. He achieved the rank of colonel . He was a medical inspector in the Panama Canal Zone .

Ashburn authored a number of specialist books and articles on topics related to medical history, hygiene and infectious diseases. From 1927 to 1932, Ashburn was the director of the United States National Library of Medicine , the world's largest medical library. In 1943 - three years after his death - a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital in McKinney (TX) was renamed Ashburn General Hospital in his honor .

Fonts

  • The elements of military hygiene - especially arranged for officers and men of the line . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1909.
  • Mosquito-borne diseases , issued by the Health Department for use in the Canal Zone. United States Government Printing Office , Washington 1914.
  • A history of the Medical Department of the United States Army . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1929.
  • The ranks of death, a medical history of the conquest of America , edited posthumously by Frank D. Ashburn. Coward-McCann, New York 1947.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isidor Fischer : Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1962, p. 45.
  2. ^ Col. PM Ashburn of Medical Corps - Obituary . In: New York Times, August 21, 1940.
  3. ^ David H. Stam: International dictionary of library histories . Taylor & Francis, 2001, p. 748. ISBN 1579582443
  4. ↑ Veterans Administration Hospital, McKinney in the Handbook of Texas Online.
personal data
SURNAME Ashburn, Percy Moreau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashburn, PM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor in the US Army
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Batavia , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1940
Place of death Washington, DC