Hermann Michael Biggs (September 29, 1859 - June 28, 1923) was an American physician and pioneer in the field of public health who helped apply the science of bacteriology to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. He was born at Trumansburg, N. Y. Educated at Cornell University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, he became lecturer and professor of pathological anatomy in the latter institution in 1885. Wikipedia
Hermann Biggs, despite his Germanic forename, was descended from an English emigrant who arrived in New England in 1690. www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/biggs.html
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