author

Frank P. McNamara

b. 1884

Known from a landmark 1920 medical study of the influenza pandemic, this early pathologist helped document how the disease affected the body at a moment when the world was still reckoning with its aftermath.

1 Audiobook

The pathology of influenza

The pathology of influenza

by M. C. (Milton C.) Winternitz, Frank P. McNamara, Isabel M. Wason

About the author

Frank P. McNamara was an American medical researcher born in 1884. Library and catalog records for The Pathology of Influenza identify him as Frank Patrick McNamara and list him as a coauthor of the 1920 Yale University Press volume.

That book was produced from the Brady Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteriology at Yale University School of Medicine and the New Haven Hospital, placing his work in a major academic medical setting. Written with Milton C. Winternitz and Isabel M. Wason, it examined the bodily effects of influenza in the wake of the great pandemic and remains the clearest confirmed part of his published legacy.

Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year are scarce in the sources I found, so it is safest to remember him as a physician-scientist whose name is preserved through an important early study of influenza pathology.