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Exhibit 040

Frederick T. Gates, Autobiography (unpublished typescript)

Exhibit 040 ยท Memoir manuscript

Frederick T. Gates, Autobiography (unpublished typescript)

Gates writes that "the hookworm work is done in every state under the guise of the State Health Boards, while it is in fact minutely directed by Mr. Rockefeller's staff and paid for with Mr. Rockefeller's money."

Source
Frederick T. Gates
Date
1928
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/rockefellermedic00browrich
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), pp. 181โ€“182; wording checked against Brown (the scan's text layer displaces the word "staff" across a page break). Archival locator from Brown's note 145 (p. 263): Gates, Autobiography, typescript pp. 456โ€“57, 463โ€“64, Gates collection, Rockefeller Foundation Archives.

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Finding MED-1.1
Primary record Rockefeller money was committed to laboratory medicine before the Flexner Report, through the Rockefeller Institute in 1901 and the Sanitary Commission in 1909.