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- A) Furman, Ibid., p. 371
B) Harden, V. A.: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, History of a Twentieth-Century
Disease, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. 1990. p.
- McCoy, G. W.: Accidental psittacosis infection among the personnel of the
Hygienic Laboratory. Public Health Reports 45:843-845, April 18, 1930.
- Rivers, Ibid. p. 157.
- Armstrong, C.: Psittacosis. Epidemiological considerations with reference to the
1929-1930 outbreak in the United States. Public Health Reports 45: 2013-2023,
August 29, 1930.
- Harden, V. A., Ibid. Inventing the NIH.
- DeKruif, Ibid. Men Against Death, pp. 202, 203.
- The nationwide outbreak of psittacosis, including the cases at the Hygienic
Laboratory, provided abundant material for publication by the national and local
news media. Articles appeared in The New York Sun, January 11. 1930, The
Washington Herald, January 9, 1930, The New Orleans Times-Picayune May 29,
1930 and many others. A summary article appeared a few years later in The
Washington Post, July 25, 1937. Armstrong also received a letter from President
W.H. McMaster of Mount Union College on February 13, 1930 inquiring about
his health. In the aftermath episode involving Mrs. Borah’s illness in 1932 there
was a similar explosion of news media coverage. Of interest, on January 24, 1934
Armstrong received a note of thanks from Ms. Marie Dressler, the motion picture
actress for autographing DeKruif’s book Men Against Death.
