September 9, 2020
You've probably said it a million times: "Walter Reed Medical Center." But who is Walter Reed?
We name airports and streets. Schools and buildings for them. It's what we do to honor a person we respect for what they've done. But over the passage of time, we may forget who they were and what they did.
Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician, and a medical investigator in the 1890's.
His research resulted in confirming Dr. Carlos Finlay's theory that Yellow Fev...