author
James C. (James Craig) Small
b. 1888
A physician and medical researcher, he is best known as a co-author of Epidemic Respiratory Disease, a detailed early-20th-century study of influenza, measles, and related lung infections. The surviving record points to work in bacteriology and public health, especially in Philadelphia.
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Epidemic Respiratory Disease The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measles
by Eugene L. (Eugene Lindsay) Opie, Francis G. (Francis Gilman) Blake, Thomas M. (Thomas Milton) Rivers, James C. (James Craig) Small
About the author
James C. Small, listed in library and publishing records as James C. (James Craig) Small and born in 1888, was a doctor and researcher whose name appears on medical works from the first half of the 20th century. He is credited as one of the authors of Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The Pneumonias and Other Infections of the Respiratory Tract Accompanying Influenza and Measles, alongside Eugene L. Opie, Francis G. Blake, and Thomas M. Rivers.
Other period sources connect him with bacteriological research and with Philadelphia medical institutions. Contemporary references describe him as a bacteriologist at Philadelphia General Hospital, and later medical publishing linked him with the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Little biographical detail beyond these professional records was easy to confirm, so the outline of his life remains fragmentary. What does come through clearly is his role in early infectious-disease and clinical research during a period when influenza, measles, pneumonia, and rheumatic illness were major public-health concerns.