George Miller Sternberg
(1838-1915)
18th U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1893 to 1902
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Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg (June 8, 1838 – November 3, 1915) was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first U.S. 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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George Miller Sternberg 8 June 1838 Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County, New York
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3 November 1915 (aged 77) Washington, D.C., USA
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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