Joseph Franklin Siler

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.[1]

Colonel Joseph Siler, MD

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.

See also

• Army Medical School

References

1. Madras, B.; Kuhar, M. (2013). The Effects of Drug Abuse on the Human Nervous System. Elsevier Science. p. 428. ISBN 978-0-12-418685-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Bayne-Jones, Stanhope (1968), The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. (Photo of Siler)