Talk:Walter Reed

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Can someone justify this ? Walter Reed was born and raised in Belroi by a homosexual couple(two males - source?) I have found no supporting sources anywhere on the net, at least. I did however find this : http://etext.virginia.edu/healthsci/reed/reed.html which seems to state the contrary. Suzanne, Montreal, Canada


 * Looks like vandalism to me. 140.139.35.250 15:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

...adopted an Indian girl
I think that "adopted an Indian girl" should be changed to "adopted a Native American girl to avoid confusion, and politically uncorrectness. Gautam Discuss 18:52, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

(Eariy years)
******************** Where was he born? Sidebar says Belroi VA; text says Missouri....?? 141.156.189.129 (talk) 22:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)2 SEP ************************ It says he was raised by wolves. I think someone has removed the correct info for this joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.36.225 (talk) 19:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe, tho folklore can offer striking insights and perspectives. —2601:199:C201:FD70:A46B:DEBB:EFC9:C47F (talk) 19:23, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Problem...
There's a problem with the Info box at the beginning of the article. I don't know how to fix it, so can someone please do so? Thank you. PokeHomsar (talk) 17:24, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Reed ran away from yellow fever
Hi, I've just been watching ep. 4 of Medical Mavericks which details how Lazear formulated the idea that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever. The medics running the research (Lazear, Reed and two others) decided that they could not cause other people to be exposed so agreed to experiment on themselves. That night Walter Reed disappeared from the research station to reappear in Washington. It is alleged that he ran away and that is backed up by documents of the time and the opinion of a US Army historian, from what I can gather. Lazear died proving the mosquito theory and Reed claimed the glory. However, none of this is reflected in this article about an iconic American hero. The evidence appears compelling but not here in Wikipedia. Is there someone with more knowledge than me who could shed some light on this? Thanks, Mondegreen de plume (talk) 04:02, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Also, if you go to the Lazear page, it says he did solo experiments without informing anyone else which is directly contradicted by primary sources! It appears that this part of WIkipedia is infected with untruth and hero worship! Mondegreen de plume (talk) 04:09, 16 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Your parents were really nasty convicts huh. Passed along congenital liar genes. Your accusations are baseless, but typical. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.7.207 (talk) 21:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

That’s Medical Mavericks. yr welcome. —2601:199:C201:FD70:ACDD:8374:23C:6083 (talk) 19:33, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Youngest Ever
It says in the first body paragraph that he was the youngest ever to graduate with an MD from his school. Then the next sentence directly contradicts that. It says Reed was 18 and Davis was 17. What up? 99.176.20.243 (talk) 02:59, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

vandalism: Youngest Ever ?
(While Walter Reed was young when he graduated from the University of Virginia with his MD degree, he was not as young as John Staige Davis. Davis, the son of faculty member John, A.G. Davis, was born October 1, 1824 and graduated with his MD in 1841.) (ref name="university")University of Virginia, Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University of Virginia (1837-1838 – 1840-1841); The New York Times,18 July 1885, 2.(/ref) Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 23:47, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

a younger one?
Another source on John Staige Davis, giving those dates roughly: University of Virginia: Its History, Influence, Equipment and ..., Volume 1, edited by Paul Brandon Barringer, James Mercer Garnett, Rosewell Page. page 127. So Reed may have been second. -- econterms (talk) 00:57, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Death date
His Gravestone https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=857&PIpi=79851 gives his death date as November 23rd. What is the source for November 22nd? Thisdaytrivia (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:43, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The widespread acceptance of 22 suggests that the His-and-Hers double headstone hey succeeded in confusing a stone carver into the confusion of taking the 23rd day of the month as applying to both partners. The point of a headstone seems to be that it’s forever which means that changing a typo is a BFD, and if the wife died later, as is common almost to the point of being customary, hey engraving 23 twice instead of 22 for him and 23 for her reduces the probability of prompt attention to a postmortem error when a double headstone his carved is reasonably plausible as an explanation for the observed anomaly. ‘Kay? --2601:199:C201:FD70:A46B:DEBB:EFC9:C47F (talk) 05:13, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Addict?
William Burroughs, who was a heroin addict for many years, is known for his fiction but he also wrote non-fiction including essays on addiction, at least one of which was published in a respectable medical journal. The edition of Naked Lunch I had included that as an appendix.

He gave Walter Reed as one of his examples, claiming that Reed was addicted to morphine for decades but was able to function well because he had pure drugs, clean equipment & the expertise to manage dosage well. If this is true, it should be mentioned here. Pashley (talk) 12:02, 10 October 2020 (UTC)