Richard P. Strong

Richard P. Strong
Richard P. Strong
Born	1872
Died	July 4, 1948(1948-07-04) (aged 75–76) Boston
Nationality	American
Education	Johns Hopkins University
Known for	Significant work in plague, cholera, bacillary dysentery and other diseases
Scientific career
Fields	Tropical medicine
Institutions	Harvard

Richard Pearson Strong (1872–1948) was a tropical medicine professor at Harvard, who did significant work in plague, cholera, bacillary dysentery and other diseases. He was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, in which he also critically infected 24 unknowing victims with cholera which resulted in 13 of their deaths, and his department eventually became incorporated into the Harvard School of Public Health, founded in 1922. From 1926-1927 he led the Harvard Medical African Expedition and authored the book The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo: Based on the Observations Made and Material Collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927 in a partnership with other Expedition members and Harvard officials.

He was born in 1872, earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University and died in Boston on July 4, 1948.^[1]

Bilibid vaccine trials[]

Strong, while the head of the Bureau of Laboratories in Manilla, carried out vaccine trials at the Philippine Bilibid Prison. During one of the experimental trials in 1906, twenty-four prisoners were injected, without their consent, with a cholera vaccine that was contaminated with bubonic plague. The prisoners became ill with bubonic plague and 13 died.^[2][3]

Sources[]

• Harvard Public Health Alumni Bulletin, November 1948, p 43–44.
• Deaths. JAMA 1948; 138 (4)
• Richard P. Strong Papers at the Countway repository of the Harvard Medical School — Includes images of R.P. Strong: 1924 on Amazon, c.1930s in Serbia, 1934 with the Harvard African Expedition
• Eli Chernin (1989). "Richard Pearson Strong and the Manchurian Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague, 1910—1911" (PDF). Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 44 (3): 296–319. doi:10.1093/jhmas/44.3.296. PMID 2671146.

External links[]

Media related to Richard Pearson Strong (physician) at Wikimedia Commons

• Richard P. Strong Papers, 1911-2004 (inclusive), 1911-1945 (bulk). GA 82. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

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