TY - JOUR AU1 - Meiklejohn, Gordon AB - THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES • VOL. 133, NO.3· MARCH 1976 © 1976 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. MAXWELL FINLAND LECTURE From the Department of Medicine, University of Gordon Meiklejohn Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado know that he must, on occasions like this, feel a It is a special pleasure to give this lecture, named great satisfaction when he looks at what he has in honor of our friend Max Finland who has played such a unique role in infectious disease achieved as a teacher. over a period of many years. Unlike many of you, When Jay Sanford asked me to speak about smallpox, I felt some hesitation because I do not I was never a trainee of Max's, but he has had a wish to give the impression that my role in the strong influence on my life. When I first joined the house staff at the University of California in eradication of this dreadful disease has really been San Francisco, shortly before World War II, one a particularly significant one. Many other people of Max Finland's earliest fellows and most de­ have done far more: D. A. Henderson, who has been head of TI - Smallpox: Is the End in Sight? JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases DO - 10.1093/infdis/133.3.347 DA - 1976-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/smallpox-is-the-end-in-sight-03RPQhEdOc SP - 347 EP - 353 VL - 133 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -