Joseph+Kinyoun

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 * Joseph Kinyoun** (1860-1919)

Joseph Kinyoun was the founder of the Hygienic laboratory. He was a young Marine Hospital Service physician trained in the new bacteriological methods. The laboratory of hygiene was an imitation of German facilities. The laboratory's purpose was to serve the public's health. It took Kinyoun a new months to be able to identify the cholera bacillus. In suspicious cases Joseph used his Zeiss microscope to demonstrate it to his fellow physicians so that they would be able to confirm their clinical diagnoses.

Joseph Kinyoun wrote that "As the symptoms . . . were by no means well defined, the examinations were confirmatory evidence of the value of bacteria cultivation as a means of positive diagnosis."

[1] "A Short History of the National Institutes of Health." // Office of History, National Institutes of Health //. Web. 5 Apr. 2011. .