Hermann Biggs

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birth_date = September 29, 1859
birth_place = Trumansburg
death_date = June 28, 1923
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nationality = American
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field = medicine public health bacteriology
work_institutions = Metropolitan Board of Health
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Hermann Michael Biggs (September 29, 1859 – June 28, 1923) was an American physician and pioneer in the field of public health who helped apply the science of bacteriology to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. He was born at Trumansburg, N. Y.

Educated at Cornell University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, he became lecturer and professor of pathological anatomy in the latter institution in 1885. From 1892 to 1901 he was pathologist and director of the bacteriological laboratories and thereafter was general medical officer of the New York Department of Health. In 1897 he was appointed professor of therapeutics and clinical medicine, and in 1907 associate professor of medicine in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. In addition to his other duties he assumed the directorship of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, upon its organization in 1901.

In 1913 he was chief of a board of experts appointed to make an investigation of health conditions in New York State, and in 1914 he became State Commissioner of Health for New York. He was appointed medical director of the General League of Red Cross Societies at Geneva in 1920 and was knighted by the King of Spain for services in preventive medicine.New International EncyclopediaHis publications include "The Administrative Control of Tuberculosis" (1904) and "An Ideal Health Department", with C. E. A. Winslow (1913).

References

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year=1990
month=Dec
title=Bibliographic briefs on Hermann M. Biggs, M.D., and three other physicians--all honorary members of the American Veterinary Medical Association
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issue=2
pages=35–57
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year=1985
month=Sep
title=Models for public health workers: Charles V. Chapin, Hermann M. Biggs, and Joseph W. Mountin
journal=Journal of public health policy
volume=6
issue=3
pages=300–6
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doi=10.2307/3342395
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year=1980
month=Jun
title=Models for action
journal=Journal of public health policy
volume=1
issue=2
pages=103–9
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doi=10.2307/3342325
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last=Terris
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year=1975
month=Jan
title=Breaking the barriers to prevention: legislative approaches
journal=Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
volume=51
issue=1
pages=242–57
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External links

* [http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/biggs.html Hermann Biggs Biography]

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