Doctors

Anita Newcomb McGee - First woman Army surgeon in 1898, and founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1900 (1/526B).

Walter Reed - Pioneer bacteriologist. Led experiments establishing mosquito transmission of Yellow Fever (3/1864) TU-16/17.

Jonathan Letterman - Surgeon General of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Led experiments with anesthesia (3/1869).

Adm. Joel T. Boone - Physician to Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover (11/137-2) N-16.

Charles G. Sonntag - Bacteriologist who experimented with transmission of Yellow Fever at Camp Lazear (17/28239).

Adm. Gary T. Grayson - Chairman of American Red Cross, physician to President Wilson (30/S-24).

Richard R. Taylor - Surgeon General 1973 (3/1865).

George M. Sternberg - Surgeon General 1890 (2/994).

Ollie Josephine B. Bennett - Pioneer woman doctor in World War I (10/10938)

Lt. Col. Albert Bruce Sabin - U.S. Army, inventor of the oral polio vaccine, special secretary of the Army exception to policy (3/1885 RH).

Nurses

Jane Delano - Pioneer in Army Nurse Corps before and during World War I. Headed the Red Cross. Died in France during World War I (1/149) MN-33/34.

Juliet Opie Hopkins - "Florence Nightingale of the South" (1/12).

Miscellaneous

Col. J.S. Billings -- Founded world-famous U.S. Army Medical Library.

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