Stitt
EDWARD RHODES, an American physician and naval officer, born at Charlotte, N. C., in 1867. He was educated at the University of South Carolina (A. B. 1885, LL. D. 1917); University of Pennsylvania (M. D. 1889), and studied at the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1905. He was appointed a United States naval assistant surgeon in 1889 and became medical director, United States Navy, with the rank of rear-admiral in 1917. He specialized in tropical diseases and for many years served in the Philippine Islands. He was a professor of tropical medicine at Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Jefferson Medical College; a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners; a member of several medical societies; and a teacher, and since 1916 commanding officer, at the United States Naval Medical School.
He wrote "Practical Bacteriology-Blood Work and Animal Parisitology" (1908); STOCKBRIDGE "Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases" (1914).