^A^alte^ Reed. 

 1851-1902. 



Walter Reed, M.D., LL.D., M.A., major and surgeon, 

 U. S. Army, was born September 13, 185 1, in Gloucester 

 County, Virginia, and was the son of the Rev. Lemuel Sutton 

 Reed, a leading Methodist divine of that State. His ancestors 

 came from North Carolina, having been among the earliest set- 

 tlers of that colony. He gave early evidence of the intellectual 

 brilliancy and earnestness of purpose which distinguished him 

 in later years, and graduated in medicine at the University of 

 Virginia in 1868. He afterwards took the degree of M.D. 

 in Bellevue Medical College, New York City. He served as 

 house surgeon in the Brooklyn City Hospital and the City Hos- 

 pital on Blackwell's Island, and before the age of 21 was ap- 

 pointed a district physician in New York City. He was also 

 appointed one of the five inspectors of the board of health of the 

 city of Brooklyn at the age of 22. In 1875 he entered the 

 Medical Corps of the Army, and for eighteen years thereafter 

 performed the customary duties of a medical oflScer at various 

 posts in different parts of the United States and in the field. 

 His military service included fifteen changes of station with 

 four years in Arizona, five in the Department of the Platte, two 

 in the Department of Dakota, three in the South, and three 

 years in the East. He was promoted full surgeon, with the 

 rank of major, December 4, 1893, and at the time of his death 

 was first on the list of majors in the Medical Department of the 

 Army. In the fall of 1890 he was assigned to duty as attending 

 surgeon in Baltimore, Md., which position he held for a year. 

 He promptly embraced this opportunity to make special studies 

 in bacteriology and pathology. 



In 1893 Major Reed was placed on duty in Washington as 

 curator of the Army Medical Museum and appointed the pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology of the newly organized Armj^ Medical 

 School. 



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