Quotes by William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama

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“My dear Gorgas,Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for dutys sake; and in doing this, while the indolent s...”
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
comradeship diligence disease-control doing-the-right-thing

“Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician,...”
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
cooperation disease-control general-leonard-wood heroes

“But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A...”
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
anopheles-gambiae avoidance compulsion cooperation

“In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.”
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
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“It is almost impossible for contemporaries to judge the true value of discoveries, or to give the proper position to the men of their own time who make these discoveries. The Surgeon-General of the...”
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
assumptions bias disease-control error

“The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in a...”
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
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