Joseph J. Kinyoun
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Joseph James Kinyoun was an American physician and the founder of the United States' Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun
A political cartoon published in a Chinese-language daily paper in June 1900; epidemiologist Joseph J. Kinyoun being injected in the head with Waldemar Haffkine's experimental plague vaccine. Two other doctors appear to be developing buboes on their heads from the oversized inoculations. Federal judge William W. Morrow looks on.
In October 1900, Kinyoun was the subject of a political cartoon about his being kicked out of his federal position.
Kinyoun's microscope
Henry T. Gage
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Henry Tifft Gage was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Republican, Gage was elected to a single term as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903. Gage was also the U.S. Minister
Joseph J. Kinyoun
…the spread of the bubonic plague. He resigned his position in 1901 after being attacked for his diagnoses, including claims by California Governor Henry Gage that he and other federal employees had falsified evidence by injecting cadavers with bacilli. He was ultimately proven correct by independent testing…
Gage in 1910
S.S. Itata in San Diego Bay in 1891
Gage (right) shakes hands with his opponent, Democrat James G. Maguire, outside the Merchants Exchange Building in San Francisco, October 8, 1898
Gage c. 1898