William Crawford Gorgas. He set the standard of military preventive medicine.

William C. Gorgas spent the first twenty years of his career dedicated to the daily tasks of rural patient care. When assigned to Havana, his practicable application of Walter Reed's demonstration of Yellow Fever transmission resulted in the elimination of Yellow Fever within eight months. His perseverance in applying principles of arthropod born disease control allowed the completion of the Panama Canal. He developed the Sanitation Corps, presently Army Environmental Health Services, and initiated emphasis on preventive medicine for the soldier. He served as the Surgeon General of the Army during World War I, when for the first time in our history fewer soldiers died from disease than from combat casualties.

Comparative effects of naproxen and aspirin on fever in children.

The antipyretic effect of single doses of naproxen, 2.5 mg/kg or 7.5 mg/kg, was compared to that of aspirin, 15 mg/kg, and of a placebo in a double-blind study. Febrile children, hospitalized overnight, were randomly assigned to one of the treatment or placebo groups, and their temperatures were recorded hourly. Naproxen, 7.5 mg/kg, was at least as effective as aspirin in onset of action and reduction of fever, and had a longer duration of action. Each of the three treatments had a significant effect as compared to that of the placebo. There was no difference in the total incidence of side effects among the four groups, but mild gastrointestinal complaints were more common among the patients in the high-dose naproxen group, whereas CNS complaints were more prevalent among the patients in the placebo group.