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Finlay

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Fin·lay  (fnl, fn-l), Carlos Juan 1833-1915.
Cuban-born American physician who identified the mosquito as the carrier of yellow fever.
Finlay [ˈfɪnlɪ]
n
(Biographies / Finlay, Carlos Juan (1833-1915) M, Cuban, MEDICINE: physician) Carlos Juan (ˈkarlos xwan). 1833-1915, Cuban physician: discovered that the mosquito was the vector of yellow fever


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Some of the Canadians supposed they were speaking of one Jacquean Finlay, a clerk of the Northwest Company, and inferred that the house must be some trading post on one of the tributary streams of the Columbia.
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