James C. (James Craig) Small

Born in 1888, James C. Small is identified in Project Gutenberg records as James Craig Small. He appears there as one of the authors of Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The Pneumonias and Other Infections of the Respiratory Tract Accompanying Influenza and Measles, a 1921 medical work written with Eugene L. Opie, Francis G. Blake, and Thomas M. Rivers.

That book focuses on pneumonia, influenza, and related respiratory infections in the context of the great World War I-era epidemic, and its summary notes observations made among military personnel, including work connected with Camp Funston. Small's place among those authors suggests he was involved in the careful clinical and pathological study of one of the most important health crises of the early twentieth century.

Reliable biographical details about his later life are hard to confirm from the sources found here, so it is safest to remember him as an early twentieth-century physician-researcher whose name remains attached to an important record of influenza-era medical investigation.