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Figure 79.—Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, The Surgeon General of the Army, presents to Col. Balduin Lucké the Legion of Merit for distinguished service to the Museum-Institute, as Mrs. Lucké looks on.
Colonel Lucké's articles on "The Pathology of Fatal Epidemic Hepatitis," based on 125 fatal cases, and on "The Structure of the Liver After Recovery from Epidemic Hepatitis," based upon post mortem examinations of 14 patients who had recovered from the disease but had thereafter succumbed to some other disease or accident.[1]
Yellow fever was but one of the tropical diseases which gave concern to the U.S. Army in the war. Indeed, as Colonel Ash wrote, tropical medicine
- ↑ (1) Lucké, B.: Pathology of Fatal Epidemic Hepatitis. American Journal of Pathology 20: 471-593. May 1944. (2) Lucké, B.: The Structure of the Liver After Recovery From Epidemic Hepatitis. American Journal of Pathology 20: 595-619, May 1944. Publication of the 36 plates in color and black-and-white was made possible by a grant to the Journal from the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Institute. The hepatitis was traced to certain batches of vaccine which used as a stabilizer human serum containing the virus of hepatitis. The epidemic stopped after the use of human serum was discontinued. In Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive Medicine in World War II. Volume III. Personal Health Measures and Immunization. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955, pp. 306-312, and Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive Medicine in World War II Volume V. Communicable Diseases Transmitted Through Contact Or By Unknown Means. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960, pp. 411-432.
