Gorgas

[ gawr-guhs ]

noun
  1. William Crawford, 1854–1920, U.S. physician and epidemiologist: chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal 1904–13; surgeon general of the U.S. Army 1914–18.

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How to use Gorgas in a sentence

  • I read between the lines of Col. Gorgas's letters that he would stand by me, and he did.

  • The report of Surgeon-Major Gorgas is very pleasant reading.

    Experiments on Animals | Stephen Paget
  • Colonel Gorgas also found conditions which challenged his best efforts.

    The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings Haskin
  • The views of Colonel Gorgas upon the future of the white race in the tropics deserve quotation.

  • Colonel Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer, was the only important official of the old rgime held over.

    The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings Haskin

Scientific definitions for Gorgas

Gorgas

[ gôrgəs ]


  1. American army surgeon who directed programs to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Havana, Cuba (1901), and in the Panama Canal Zone (1904-1906). The mosquito had been shown by Dr. Walter Reed and others to be responsible for the transmission of yellow fever.

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