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Edward Bright Vedder was born on June 28, 1878, in New York City. He was the son of Henry Clay, a Baptist clergyman, and Minnie Lingham Vedder.
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Edward Bright Vedder was born on June 28, 1878, in New York City. He was the son of Henry Clay, a Baptist clergyman, and Minnie Lingham Vedder.
Vedder received the Ph. B. in 1898 from the University of Rochester and the M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the M. S. in 1903, concentrating on the study of dysentery with Simon Flexner.
After being commissioned a first lieutenant and assistant surgeon in the United States Army Medical Corps, Vedder continued his studies at the Army Medical School in Washington, D. C. , where he became involved in the investigation of typhoid immunization.
After graduating in 1904, Vedder served with John J. Pershing against the Moros in the Philippines, where he observed tropical diseases firsthand. From 1910 to 1913, he was based in Manila as a member of the Army Board for the Study of Tropical Disease. Vedder returned to the United States in 1913 to become an assistant professor of pathology at the Army Medical School, where he wrote The Prevalence of Syphilis in the Army (1915), Sanitation for Medical Officers (1917), and Syphilis and Public Health (1918).
From 1919 to 1922 he was director of the Southern Department Laboratory at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He became chief of medical research at the Edgewood (Md. ) Arsenal in 1922. His research there on chemical warfare led to The Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare (1925), the most comprehensive and intelligent study then available. Vedder argued that although gas warfare is barbarous, it is more humane than other forms of warfare. In 1925, Vedder returned to Manila as a senior member of the Army Board for Medical Research. He returned to Washington in 1929 and became commandant of the Army Medical School in 1930.
From 1931 to 1933, at the Edgewood Arsenal, Vedder studied the effects of poison gas. He retired from the army in 1933 to become a professor of experimental medicine at George Washington University. In 1942, he was appointed a director of medical education at the Alameda County (Calif. ) Hospital and laboratory director at Highland County Hospital in Oakland. Vedder retired in 1947. He died in Washington, D. C.
In 1913, Vedder published Beriberi, for which he received the Cartwright Prize of Columbia University. The Association of Military Surgeons awarded him the Wellcome Prize in 1932 for his "Study of the Antiscorbutic Vitamin. " He determined that beriberi is a deficiency disease and his work on clinical scurvy, another deficiency disease, led to the discovery by others that ascorbic acid is a vitamin. In Medicine: Its Contribution to Civilization (1929), which dealt with the causes of disease and progress in disease prevention.
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Vedder advocated the popularizing of medical ideals and achievements.
On June 22, 1903, Vedder married Lily Sheldrake Norton. They had two children.
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