Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1915 — Physician of Eminence. [ARTICLE]

Physician of Eminence.

Dr. Richard Pearson Strong, having quelled the epidemic of typhus fever in Serbia, thereby saving countless thousands of lives, now returns to this country to resume his place as professor of tropical medicine at the Harvard Medical school. He had previous plague experience in the Philippines and China. Doctor Strong was born in Fortress Monroe, Virginia, March 18, 1872. It Is said that even as a child he was attracted to medicine as a profession, and that the medical officers at the fort were his chosen friends. He graduated from the medical school at Johns Hopkins, winning his M. D., in 1897. Then came a year as resident house physician at the Johns Hopkins hospital. He entered the army July 22, 1898, as assistant surgeon. After his splendid work in China he was induced to attach himself to Harvard university, where he has operated along research lines.