George C. Payne

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George C. Payne (also known as G.C. Payne) was an American tropical physician and director for the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation for Mexico [1] and Trinidad in the 1920s. [2] He also worked as a physician for the state health board in Virginia in 1923. [3] He investigated hookworm disease between 1921 [4] [5] [6] and 1934, [7] and was known for studying the links between hookworm, tropical sprue and anemia in Trinidad, [2] as well as Puerto Rico at the School of Tropical Medicine, where he worked with William Bosworth Castle and Cornelius P. Rhoads. [8] [9] [10] In 1929 he published a study on effective footwear to reduce worm infestation. [11] He became involved in the Rhoads scandal of the 1930s. [12] He was the first to use a type of mosquito bait trap or stable trap in 1923 in the West Indies. [13] He also studied diet and nutrition in Mexico from 1944 to 1948. [14] [15]

References

  1. ↑ Fitzgerald, Deborah (1986). "Exporting American Agriculture: The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico, 1943-53" . Social Studies of Science. 16 (3): 457–483. doi:10.1177/030631286016003003. ISSN   0306-3127. JSTOR   285027. S2CID   145091775.
  2. 1 2 Cort, William W. (1921). "The Expedition to Trinidad for the Study of Hookworm Disease" . Science. 54 (1407): 595–597. Bibcode:1921Sci....54..595C. doi:10.1126/science.54.1407.595. ISSN   0036-8075. JSTOR   1644581. PMID   17742141.
  3. ↑ PAYNE, GEORGE C.; ARMSTRONG, CHARLES (1923-09-01). "Epidemic Transient Diaphragmatic Spasm" . Journal of the American Medical Association. 81 (9): 746–748. doi:10.1001/jama.1923.02650090044013. ISSN   0002-9955.
  4. ↑ Cort, Willam W.; Payne, George C. (1922-03-01). "Investigations on the Control of Hookworm Disease. Vi" . American Journal of Epidemiology. 2 (2): 107–148. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a118528. ISSN   1476-6256.
  5. ↑ Cort, William W.; Riley, William A.; Payne, George C.; Hill, Rolla B. (July 1923). "Investigations on the Control of Hookworm Disease. Xxvi. An Epidemiologic Study of a Small Village on the North Coastal Plain of Porto Rico" . American Journal of Epidemiology. 3 (supp2): 61–72. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a118971. ISSN   1476-6256.
  6. ↑ Cort, William W.; Riley, William A.; Payne, George C. (July 1923). "Investigations on the Control of Hookworm Disease. Xxvii. The Study of an Area in the Mountains of Porto Rico, Which Had Been Influenced for Twenty Years by Hookworm Control Measures" . American Journal of Epidemiology. 3 (supp2): 73–84. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a118972. ISSN   1476-6256.
  7. ↑ Ashford, Bailey K. (1933-09-09). "Acute Uncinariasis from Massive Infestation and ITS Implications" . JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 101 (11): 843. doi:10.1001/jama.1933.02740360023008. ISSN   0098-7484.
  8. ↑ Rhoads, C. P.; Castle, W. B.; Payne, G. C.; Lawson, H. A. (September 1934). "Observations on the Etiology and Treatment of Anemia Associated with Hookworm Infection in Puerto Rico". Medicine. 13 (3): 317–375. doi: 10.1097/00005792-193409000-00002 . S2CID   56780589.
  9. ↑ "The Porto Rican School of Tropical Medicine" . Science. 64 (1657): 322–323. 1926. doi:10.1126/science.64.1657.322.b. ISSN   0036-8075. JSTOR   1652387. S2CID   239541851.
  10. ↑ Castle, W. B. (1935-10-01). "Etiology and Treatment of Sprue" . Archives of Internal Medicine. 56 (4): 627. doi:10.1001/archinte.1935.00170020001001. ISSN   0730-188X.
  11. ↑ Payne, George C. (1929-01-01). "Penetration by Infective Hookworm Larvae of the Materials Used in the Manufacture of Shoes" . The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. s1-9 (1): 79–82. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1929.s1-9.79.
  12. ↑ Lederer, Susan E. (2002). ""Porto Ricochet": Joking about Germs, Cancer, and Race Extermination in the 1930s" . American Literary History. 14 (4): 720–746. doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.720. ISSN   0896-7148. JSTOR   3568022.
  13. ↑ Pritchard, A. Earl; Pratt, Harry D. (1944). "I. A Comparison of Light Trap and Animal Bait Trap Anopheline Mosquito Collections in Puerto Rico. II. A List of the Mosquitoes of Puerto Rico" . Public Health Reports. 59 (7): 221–233. doi:10.2307/4584781. hdl: 2027/coo.31924018506414 . ISSN   0094-6214. JSTOR   4584781. S2CID   74599143.
  14. ↑ Robinson, WILLIAM D.; Payne, GEORGE C.; De la torre, JOSÉ CALVO (1944-05-01). "A Study of the Nutritional Status of a Population Group in Mexico City1" . Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 20 (5): 289–297. doi:10.1016/S0002-8223(21)32312-4. ISSN   0002-8223. S2CID   244894269.
  15. ↑ Anderson, Richmond K.; Calvo, José; Robinson, William D.; Serrano, Gloria; Payne, George C. (August 1948). "Nutrition Appraisals in Mexico". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 38 (8): 1126–1135. doi:10.2105/AJPH.38.8.1126. ISSN   0002-9572. PMC   1624543 . PMID   18876699.


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