Figure 14.

Charles Smith. Smith, affectionately nicknamed Snuffy after the then popular cartoon “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith,” received his MD from Stanford in 1931 where he was Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine from 1948 to 1952, during which time he was also President of the California State Board of Health. He became Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. Smith defined the geographic and clinical epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis, among many other important contributions to our knowledge of the disease. Born in 1904, he died in 1967. Permission: Creative Commons. Permission: Open Access, U.S. Army Medical History Department Office of Medical History. http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/historiesofcomsn/section1.html.