Cole
Director del Hospital de la Universidad Rockefeller. Estudió la segunda oleada en Camp Devens (Byerly, artículo de 2010): Gorgas sent his best epidemiologists to Camp Devens to investigate. His team included Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the University of Michigan School of Medicine and director of the Surgeon General's Office of Communicable Disease; William Henry Welch, famed pathologist from Johns Hopkins; and Rufus Cole, respiratory diseases expert from the Rockefeller Institute.18 They found the medical situation “grave,” and recommended 16 measures to control the outbreak, the most dramatic being a halt to transfers in or out of Devens until the epidemic passed. Camp Devens physicians performing autopsies described influenza pathology as unique, characterized by “the intense congestion and hemorrhage” of the lungs.19 Cole and Welch observed one such autopsy, and Cole noted that Welch, “turned away from the blue, swollen lungs with wet, foamy, shapeless surfaces [and] became excited and nervous, saying, `This must be some new kind of infection or plague.'” Added Cole, “It was not surprising that the rest of us were disturbed, but it shocked me to find that the situation, momentarily at least, was too much even for Dr. Welch.”20
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