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Up for sale a RARE! "Endemic Typhus" Rolla Dyer Hand Signed 3X5 Card.

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Rolla Eugene Dyer (November 4, 1886

– June 7, 1971) was an American physician born in Delaware County, Ohio.

Dyer received his B.A. in 1907 from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and his M.D. in 1914 from the University of Texas. He

joined the U.S. Public Health Service in

1916.

His first assignment involved fieldwork on bubonic plague in New Orleans. Five years later he joined the staff of the U.S. Hygienic Laboratory,

became chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in 1936, and director

of National Institutes of

Health from 1942 until his retirement in 1950. An expert

in infectious diseases, he

demonstrated how endemic typhus is

spread and is noted for developing a vaccine to protect against the disease. As director of

NIH, Dr. Dyer organized the Division of Research Grants, assisted in planning

the Clinical Center, and helped establish three new institutes: the National

Heart Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, and National

Institute of Mental Health. He also served as a member of the

scientific board of directors of the International Health

Division of the Rockefeller Foundation and

as director of research at Emory University until 1957. He died in Atlanta on June

3, 1971. His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine.

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