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Edward Orem Shakespeare, MD
Edward Orem Shakespeare, MD (M 1869), nationally distinguished pioneer in bacteriology and public health, pictured here as a US Army medical officer, 1899. Early in his career Shakespeare pursued ophthalmology at Philadelphia General Hospital (also known as Blockley). His interests extended to pathology and bacteriology. Blockley appointed Shakespeare as its first "Bacteriologist," while Penn gave him a faculty position in pathology. Shakespeare made his mark studying late-19th-century epidemics in the US and abroad. He explained the 1885 outbreak of typhoid fever in Plymouth, PA, the result of water supply contamination. That same year President Grover Cleveland appointed him to investigate cholera in Europe and India. During the Spanish-American War, Shakespeare worked as a medical officer alongside Drs. Walter Reed and Victor Vaughan in solving the problem of typhoid fever epidemics in US Army camps. (Edward O. Shakespeare)
Edward Orem Shakespeare, MD
Edward Orem Shakespeare, MD (M 1869), nationally distinguished pioneer in bacteriology and public health, pictured here as a US Army medical officer, 1899. Early in his career Shakespeare pursued ophthalmology at Philadelphia General Hospital (also known as Blockley). His interests extended to pathology and bacteriology. Blockley appointed Shakespeare as its first "Bacteriologist," while Penn gave him a faculty position in pathology. Shakespeare made his mark studying late-19th-century epidemics in the US and abroad. He explained the 1885 outbreak of typhoid fever in Plymouth, PA, the result of water supply contamination. That same year President Grover Cleveland appointed him to investigate cholera in Europe and India. During the Spanish-American War, Shakespeare worked as a medical officer alongside Drs. Walter Reed and Victor Vaughan in solving the problem of typhoid fever epidemics in US Army camps. (Edward O. Shakespeare)