Wade Hampton Frost: An Appreciation

Snippets From the Past: The Evolution of Wade Hampton Frost's Epidemiology as Viewed From the American Journal of Hygiene/Epidemiology

“…The magnitude and diversity of Frost's contribution to the evolution of epidemiology is reflected in articles about him by colleagues at Johns Hopkins (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6), epidemiologists (7,8), and historians (9) and in a biography (10). The present article focuses only on some aspects of Frost's published scientific work, specifically his publications in the American Journal of Hygiene/American Journal of Epidemiology, because the "Snippets From the Past" articles are about the history of epidemiology viewed from the vantage point of this Journal.…”