Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938

A biography of a seminal figure in the fight against tuberculosis and other public health diseases. Wade Hampton Frost was the first Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in the first Department of Epidemiology in the United States. A Virginian and a graduate of the University of Virginia, Frost began his remarkable career with two decades of service in the United States Public Health Service. He investigated epidemics of yellow fever, typhoid, polio, streptococcal sore throat, m