Show government HEALTH ADVISER when theodore roosevelt discovered some years ago that the panama canal could never be built until the yellow fever plague was conquered he appointed a commission of medical men to discover the cause of the scourge and the means of preventing it the splendid work of that commission everybody knows but not everyone is aware that the members of the commission 11 il 0 were named by a private citizen dr aj william PI welch of baltimore dr welch has J occupied for years the unique position of unofficial 4 y adviser to tho the united states government in all largo large matters relating to the public health there is hardly a single body that has to do with the national health which does not include dr welch among its members As president of the rockefeller institute for Al medical edical research in now new york human life says ho he has helped to ins inspire p ire many of the great discoveries which have come out of that laboratory from dr simon flexner and others not long ago the carnegie institution in washington needed a chairman for its executive committee which has general oversight of all the institutions manifold scientific activities dr welch was waa elected and although the carnegie research workers are busy with many other problems besides those of medicine lie he takes almost as MUC much h interest in the institutions new nonmagnetic non magnetic yacht and its observatory in the andes as in his own particular subject As a pathologist dr welch has won a worldwide world wide wido reputation occupying the professorship in this science at johns hopkins university since its foundation lie he has made during deruig the last twenty five years many important contributions to our knowledge of diphtheria typhoid fever malaria asiatic cholera kidney troubles and other diseases |