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James C. (James Craig) Small
b. 1888
A physician and bacteriologist, he wrote about infectious disease and arthritis at a time when modern medical research was rapidly taking shape. His surviving work points to a career rooted in laboratory medicine, military service during World War I, and hospital research 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
Born in 1888, James C. Small — identified in library and medical catalog records as James Craig Small — was an American physician, bacteriologist, and medical author. He is credited as a co-author of Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The Pneumonias and Other Infections of the Respiratory Tract Accompanying Influenza and Measles, a 1921 study connected with wartime and postwar research into major respiratory illnesses.
Sources from the period describe him as a former First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and later as a bacteriologist at Philadelphia General Hospital. A 1930s TIME report and later medical publications also place him in Philadelphia hospital medicine, where he wrote on rheumatic fever and arthritis.
Detailed biographical information about his personal life appears to be scarce online, but the published record suggests a doctor deeply involved in early twentieth-century clinical research, especially infectious disease and chronic inflammatory illness.