Gorgas,
William Crawford 1854-1920; U.S. army medical officer: chief sanitary officer in the Canal Zone during construction of the Panama Canal
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(gôrˈgəs), William Crawford 1854-1920.
American army surgeon who conducted campaigns against yellow fever in Havana (1901) and in the Panama Canal Zone (1904-1906), thereby helping make possible construction of the canal.