Theobald Smith: A Beginning

We already have seen that in a less UK-oriented era, Fredrik Holst of Norway might now be regarded as European Father of Epidemiology by virtue of his well-designed population surveys of specific categories of mental disorders. These surveys are described in Anthony and Van Etten (1998) and in Tambs (2015; https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/norepid/article/viewFile/1893/1892).

Across the Atlantic, Theobald Smith is an American candidate. This is an excerpt from one of the obituary descriptions of his life, and more should follow. Search for Theobald Smith to find the later entries. Here, pay attention to the metaphor of a chain. We will return to that metaphor later on.