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Drs. Nancy Vincent and Arthur Loring take vacation from their academic medical careers in Minneapolis and embark on a wilderness canoe trip the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters. Their idyllic adventure is interrupted by an out-of-control forest fire that pursues them as they make their way south up the Magnetic River to Gunflint Lake. Forestry service planes pass overhead as they drop water on the advancing blaze.Crossing the lake and reachin...

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Wade Hampton Frost was the first Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in the first Department of Epidemiology in the United States. A Virginian and a graduate of the University of Virginia, Frost began his remarkable career with two decades of service in the United States Public Health Service. He investigated epidemics of yellow fever, typhoid, polio, streptococcal sore throat, meningitis, and influenza. His greatest contribu...

Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis tells the stories of six individuals (Laennec, Koch, Biggs, von Pirquet, Frost, and Waksman), each of whom made significant contributions to their own respective medical fields, as well as to the overall battle to conquer tuberculosis.

Histoplasmosis is a fungal disease that is widely endemic in much of the world. In the central United States, including the broad reaches of the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, the majority of adults are infected with the causative fungus. Most infected individuals handle this infection well, but a few do become sick. Over the years there have been a number of outbreaks or epidemics with many persons becoming severely ill and some dying as...

A comprehensive examination of TB. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award 1998.