Dedicated to the Memory of William Crawford Gorgas

Dedicated to the Memory of William Crawford Gorgas. Physician, Sanitary Engineer, President of the American Medical Association, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army., William Crawford Gorgas, born in Mobile, Alabama in 1854. Graduated from Bellevue Medical College in New York. Entered the Army Medical Corps as a First Lieutenant., In 1882, he was assigned to Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas as Post Assistant Surgeon, arriving at the height of the Yellow Fever Epidemic. The Post Hospital is now the focal point of activities of the Texas Southmost College campus., During the Spanish American War, Dr. Gorgas was in charge of the Yellow Fever Camp near Havana, then became Sanitary Officer for the city of Havana., He was commissioned to direct sanitary operations in Panama during the construction of the Panama Canal; was elected President of the American Medical Association in 1908, was appointed Surgeon General of the U.S. Army in 1914, holding the rank of Brigadier General and retired in 1918 with the rank of Major General., He received the Distinguished Service Cross from the United States and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from France. Shortly before his death in London on July 3, 1920, King George V of Great Britain personally presented him with the order of St. Michael and St. George., In the annals of American history, he is known as "The most internationally honored American medical man who ever lived".