CONTENT ALERTS Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ %Eilton No%epb 30oenau lS69-1946 0fliton JoWepp 3Rogenau lS69-1946 "His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!'" Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1869, was graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania at the age of twenty. He was commissioned in the U. S. Public Health Service, in which he remained from 1890 to 1909, and was Director of its Hygienic Laboratory from 1900 to 1909. From 1909 to 1935 he was Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at the Harvard Medical School. In addition, he also served from 1914 to 1921 as Chief of the Division of Biologic Laboratories of the Massachusetts State Board of Health and from 1922 to 1935 as Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1936 until his death he was Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. He belonged to many scientific societies, and was awarded the Gold Medal of American Medicine in 1912-1913, the Sedgwick Medal in 1933, and a gold medal for outstanding contributions in allergy in 1945. Few men have had such a full life as Dr. Rosenau. When the...