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GUST E. LAMBERT
17092 LINCOLN STREET
HAZEL CREST, ILLINOIS
Dear Doctor
You ask in your letter if I need any help.
Yes I do, I am getting old, passed 81, in poor
health, and if I pass on there will be no one
to try to get recognition for Dr Ames. It would be
a crime if everyone I included, should receive
recognition and the man who made experiment
posible should be left out. Gen. Truby in his book
page 190 says, the work depended on Dr Ames and I
think it did, if the same thing had happened at
quemados as at Las animas "see page 236 in book
Walter Reed and yellow fever" or at Pinar del Rio
mentioned in General Trubys book page 190 "I don't
think Maj. Reed would have started any experiment
War Dept. has always claimed that Dr Ames was just the
physician, but I know he did more for the experiment
than Agramonte "I have a letter from Gen. Truby stating
Agramonte did nothing to help Maj. Reed" I helped
Dr Ames when he inoculated Jernigan with blood taken
from Martinez. Dr Ames was the only one I saw feeding
mosquitos on the patients. I have sworn affidavit by
Hanberry that Dr Ames inoculated him and Sontag
he did that the day after Maj. Reed left Havana. Dr Ames
being a native of Louisiana a congressman from that state
should handle the bill, I spoke to congressman Passman of
La. while in Washington, he was in favor of Dr Ames, when
my bill is cleared away I'll ask Mr Passman to introduce
a bill for Dr Ames, if a hearing is held and I am allowed
to testify I know I can convince the Committee that Ames
was more than a physician. Then a word by you to the
Surg. Gen. I known that bill would pass. It was after I had
been examined by Maj. McKinzie from the Surg. Gens.
office that word was sent to Armed force committee that
my bill should be acted on favorably. Respectfully
Gust. E. Lambert.
17092-Lincoln Str
Hazel Crest Ill
Phone Ed. 1-7464
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