Joseph Franklin Siler

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Colonel Joseph Siler, MD

Colonel Joseph Franklin Siler, MD (1875–1960) was a U.S. Army physician noted for investigations of mosquito transmission of dengue fever in the Philippines and for Marijuana Smoking in Panama, one of the first experimental reports on cannabis.^[1]

Siler was commander the Laboratory Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I and undertook extensive experimental observations on the manufacture and immunizing efficacy of anti-typhoid vaccines.

See also

Army Medical School

References

^ Madras, B.; Kuhar, M. (2013). The Effects of Drug Abuse on the Human Nervous System. Elsevier Science. p. 428. ISBN 978-0-12-418685-9.

External links

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Bayne-Jones, Stanhope (1968), The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine (Photo of Siler)

Presidents of the United States Army Medical School

Charles Henry Alden (1893–1898)
William Henry Forwood (1901–1902)
Calvin DeWitt Sr. (1902–1903)
Charles Lawrence Heizmann (1903–1906)
Valery Havard (1906–1909)
Louis La Garde (1909–1912)
Charles Richard (1912–1915)
William Hempel Arthur (1915–1918)
Weston Percival Chamberlain (1918–1918)
Francis Anderson Winter (1918–1919)
Walter Drew McCaw (1919–1923)
Weston Percival Chamberlain (1923–1924)
Henry Clay Fisher (1924–1929)
Christopher Clark Collins (1929–1930)
Charles Franklin Craig (1930–1931)
Jay Ralph Shook (1931–1931)
Edward Bright Vedder (1931–1932)
Philip Weatherly Huntington (1932–1935)
Joseph Franklin Siler (1935–1939)
George Russell Callender (1940–1946)
Rufus Holt (1946–1949)
Elbert De Coursey (1949–1950)
William S. Stone (1950–1953)

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