George Miller Sternberg
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican physician (1838-1915); 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1893 to 1902
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S. Army physician who is considered the first American bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892).
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About this person
Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first American bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886).
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United StatesCategory
Doctors
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Doctor
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deceased
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Lived 1838 to 1915 · aged 77
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