Samuel Albert Cook on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Samuel Albert Cook (May 3, 1878 – February 10, 1915) was a 
During the epidemic, all buildings in the city, including hotels, schools and cafes became hospital wards, and the streets and non-urbanized parts of the neighborhood were hospital corridors. As early as mid-December 1914, the number of patients had risen to 7,000 patients, and at the height of the epidemic, during January and February 1915, the disease peaked. A decisive role in the suppression of the typhoid epidemic in Serbia had the American mission and was headed by one of the most significant
Saving Serbia: The American Mission and the typhoid epidemic in Serbia in 1915
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Samuel 1878 births 1915 deaths 20th-century American physicians Deaths from typhoid fever American casualties of World War I
Samuel Albert Cook (May 3, 1878 – February 10, 1915) was a medical doctor
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis ...
and member of the American Red Cross
The American National Red Cross is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit Humanitarianism, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. Clara Barton founded ...
mission in Serbia during First World War
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
.
Dr. Samuel Albert Cook was born on May 3, 1878, in Whitehall
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea, London, Chelsea. It ...
, New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
New York may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* ...
. He completed his medical studies, lived and worked in his homeland until 1915, when, as a member of the American Medical Mission, he came to the aid of Serbian small and poorly equipped military medical sanity. He was particularly involved in the vaccination of ill-affected of typhus
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposu ...
in Valjevo
Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 56,145 while the city admini ...
hospital, which actually consisted of two primary, one military, six reserve and a large number of field hospitals. From December 1914 to May 1915 in Serbia, during the typhoid epidemic, 35,000 Serbian soldiers, 35,000 prisoners and 120,000 civilians died. The focus point of the disease was Valjevo, in which nearly ten thousand people died from the end of December 1914 to the beginning of May 1915. The casualties included 3,500 Serb soldiers, 4,000 civilians and 2,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, and hundreds of sick died daily during the epidemic.
During the epidemic, all buildings in the city, including hotels, schools and cafes became hospital wards, and the streets and non-urbanized parts of the neighborhood were hospital corridors. As early as mid-December 1914, the number of patients had risen to 7,000 patients, and at the height of the epidemic, during January and February 1915, the disease peaked. A decisive role in the suppression of the typhoid epidemic in Serbia had the American mission and was headed by one of the most significant epidemiologist
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases.
It is a cornerstone ...
s of the time, Richard Strong, a professor at Harvard. His crew had more than forty doctors and paramedics.
Cook died of typhoid, treating diseased Serbian soldiers. In Valjevo, a street is named after him.
See also
* William Hunter *Ludwik Hirszfeld
Ludwik Hirszfeld (; 5 August 1884 – 7 March 1954) was a Polish microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types.
Life
He was a cousin of Aleksander Rajchman, a Polish mathematician, and ...
References
External links
Saving Serbia: The American Mission and the typhoid epidemic in Serbia in 1915
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Samuel 1878 births 1915 deaths 20th-century American physicians Deaths from typhoid fever American casualties of World War I