About Joseph Franklin Siler
Lived 1875 – 1960 (aged 84–85). Joseph Franklin Siler was a military physician.
Colonel Joseph Franklin Siler, MD (1875–1960) was a U.S. Army physician noted for investigations of mosquito transmission of dengue fever in the Philippines and for Marijuana Smoking in Panama, one of the first experimental reports on cannabis.
Siler was commander the Laboratory Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I and undertook extensive experimental observations on the manufacture and immunizing efficacy of anti-typhoid vaccines.
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Who was Joseph Franklin Siler?
American physician
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Joseph Franklin Siler was born in 1875.
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Joseph Franklin Siler died in 1960.
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Joseph Franklin Siler was a military physician.
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