Letter of the Day: March 6

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 07375

Post Hospital Fort Keogh Montana
March 6, 1904

To the
Curator of the Army Medical Museum
Washington, D.C.

Sir:-

I am sending today by mail, under separate cover, five flamed cover glass smears of sputum which I would request to have examined for the presence or not of tubercle bacilli.

Frequent examinations here have not revealed any, and as the patient presents symptoms, suspicious of tuberculosis, a confirmation or not of the findings here is desired.

The gross appearance of the sputum is mucoid with presence here and there of muco-purulent streaks. The patient claims to have had two attacks of memoptysis, not verified however by myself.

In the event of a positive finding it is requested that the stained specimen be returned to me, for future reference and comparison.

Very respectfully,

Edward F. Geddings
1st. Lieut. Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A.
Surgeon.