The Virtual Museum:
A Glimpse of the Storied History of UPCM

Featured Paintings and Gallery Calderon Hall Medical Science Building

RICHARD P. STRONG, MD

Dr. Richard P. Strong was an American doctor, who served two years as a member of the American Army Medical Service during the Spanish-American war. Following this period, he became the head of a biological laboratory in the Philippine Bureau of Science, where he studied infectious and nutritional diseases. Dr. Strong conducted a vaccination trial for cholera on prisoners from Bilibid Prison, where more than half of the participants died of the bubonic plague due to a laboratory mix-up. There were efforts to keep the incident a secret, but it was found out by the media, which then criticized the American government at the time. He was absolved of any wrongdoing and eventually became a faculty member of the Department of Tropical Medicine in the UP College of Medicine. 

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