IJE Advance Access originally published online on October 31, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(6):1191-1193; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi192
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Commentary: Donald Budd Armstrong (18861968)pioneering tuberculosis prevention in general practice
Faculty of Health Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, NY, USA
* Corresponding author. E-mail: mws2@columbia.edu
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Early in the medical career of Donald Budd Armstrong (18861968), a leaning toward public health was evident. In 1912, he graduated MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (known colloquially as P&S). It is a fair assumption that his interest in public health was stimulated by Haven Emerson, grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a lecturer in physiology and clinical medicine at the College. Emerson had switched to lecturing in public health in 1913, founded the Columbia Institute of Public Health in 1921, and became a major figure in academe as a protagonist of public health.1 Armstrong, as a student during the Emerson years, followed suit in focusing his interests on public health. In 1910, academic studies in the field had been introduced at the University of Michigan. In 1913 William Sedgwick, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), had joined with the Harvard faculty Milton Rosenau
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