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Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, Saturday, Augustr 30, 1975
Dr. Bass, Retired Dean, Dies
Dr. Charles C. Bass, emeritus dean of Tulane University?s School of Medicine, died Friday at his home. He was 100.
Private funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at House of BUltman, 3328 St. Charles Ave. with The Rev. John Stone Jenkins, rectgor of Trinity Episcopal Chruch, officiating. Interment will be in the Metairie Cemetery.
Dr. Bass, famous for his studies of micro-organisms causing hookworm and malaria and as the ?father of preventive dentistry,? graduated from Tulane School of Medicine in 1899.
He returned to his native Mississippi to practice for five years in Columbia, where he earned fame diagnosing and demonstrating treatments for hookworm, which affected 80 per cent of the children in Marion County.
In 1904, Dr. Bass was appointed to the teaching staff of Tulane?s medical school, where he became the first scientist to cultivate a malaria organism in a test trube, and in 1922, Dr. Bass was appointed dean of the school, a position which he held until his retirement in 1940.
During his tenure as dean, Dr. Bass guided the medical school through rapid expansions in number of students, faculty memebers, and facilities. Hutchinson Memorial Building, which houses many of the medical school?s current operations, was erected during this time.
Following his retirement, Dr. Bass pursued the study of dental disease as a second career. He designed and promoted an effective method of personal oral hygiene used today by dentists throughout the world and which is considered one of his most important contributions to medical science.
Through studying the micro-organisms that combine with saliva to form plaque and cause tooth decay. Dr. Bass concluded that removed of these micro-ogranisms daily would virtually eliminate any dentail disease.
To thie end, he established the use of dental floss and the proper use of the toothbrush in what dentists came to call ?the dental floss era?.
In citing Dr. Bass? contributions to the field of medicine, his former student, Dr. George E. Burch, emeritus professor of medicine at Tulane and former chairman of the department tof medicine, said that ?Dr. Bass was a man of absolute integrity whose judgements were always based on logic and whose academic attitudes and pursuit of knowledge were devoted to the welfare of Tulane and to tis School of Medicine.
?Dr Bass originated the idea of clinical laboratories in the United States, having served as author of a book on laboratory techniques. Also through his efforts, the Department of Medicine at the medical school became the first in the world to have a section devoted to dental health and hygiene,? said Dr. Burch.
He further stated that Dr. Bass? professional attainments brought international recognition to him and to the university.
Dr. Bass, a former president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Society of Tropical Medicine, and the Southern Medical Association, was a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree by the University of Cincinnati in 1920 and an honorary doctor of laws degree by Duke University in 1937.
Dr. Bass, husband of the late Mrs. Carolina Howell Bass and father of the late Charles C. Bass Jr. is survived by a sister, Mrs. U.D. Hoey of Lumberton, Miss.; three daughters, Mrs. Donald Trumbo of Fayetteville, Ark., Mrs. James W. Hopkins and Miss Corinne Bass, both of New Orleans; seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, Wednesday, August 2, 1922
College Honors Man Who Found Malarial Germ
Dr. C.C. Bass Elected Dean of Tualne School of Medicine
(Includes picture of Dr. C.C. Bass)
Dr. Charles Cassedy Bass, whose research work in malaria control won him distinction, an alumnus and for more than ten years an instructor at Tulane, has been elected dean of the Tulane school of medicein, it was announced yesterday following action Monday by they board of administrators. The deanship has been vacant for nearly two years, President A. B. Dinwiddie, having officiated since the death, October 12, 1920, of Dr. Isadore Dyer.
A native of Marion County, Mississippi, where his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. I.E. Bass, still live. Dr. Bass was graduatged from the Tulane medical college in 1899. After five years of practiving medicine at Columbia, Miss., and several years of post-graduate work at the Johns Hopkins medical school he came to New Orleans.
Here he soon took the position of clinical instructgor on the staff of the late Prof. John. B Elliott Sr, rising rapidly in position at Tulane. In 1921 he was made professor of experimental medicine and director of the laboratoires of clinical medicine, which position he has held since.
Private practice and especially private laboratory work in addition to his college teaching occupied Dr. Bass during his first years in New Orleans, but for the last five or six years he has devoted al lhis time to instruction and research.
Several important discoveries which haver contgributed to the advancement of medical knowledge have resulted from Dr. Bass? extensive delving into scientific fields. His most outstanding single achievement has been the successful cultivation of the malaria plasmodium or germ. This was recognized and confirmed in every civilized country in the world.
Tributes paid Dr. Bass in this connection inclduje gold medals from the American Medical Associatino, the Olreans Parish Medical Assocaition, and the Mississippi State Medical Association.
Directing researches relative to the control of malaria for the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and for the Mississippi Health Department have occupied much of Dr. Bass? time for the last few years.
Dr. Bass is the author of many articles on scientific subjects and belongs to a number of scientific societies.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, Friday, June 20, 1913
Dr. Bass Honored
Awarded Gold Medal for the Year?s Best Research
Dr. Charles C. Bass, professor in the school of hygiene and tropical medicine of Tulane University, Thursday was awarded the gold medal, which is presented annually by the American Medical Association, for the most illustrious, scientific research of the year. The American Medical Assocation is now in session oat Minneapolis. The medal which Dr. Bass received is one of the greatest honors which can be bestowed upon a member of the medical prefession. It is the first time that it has ever been awarded to an Orleanian, and consequently great credit redounds indrectoy to the Tulane school of tropical medicine.
Dr. Bass? work, which earned him the medal, was the cultivation of the malaria parasite while on an expedition in Central and South America, in the interests of the school of tropical medicine. Following the announcement of his achievement, the work was regarded as invaluable contribution to the knowledge of malaria, but it was hardly anticipated that the American Medical Association would see fit to grace him with its medal. Dr. Reighton Wellman, dean of the school of tropical medicine, yesterday was the recipient of scores of congratulatory telegram sfrom all parts of the country for the signal honor paid his department through Dr. Bass? work.
Dr. Bass, who is now in Minneapolis, will to-day hold an exhibition before the entire American Medical Association convention dealing with the researches concerning beri-beri as conducted in the laboratories of the school of tropical medicine by Dr. Wellman and himself. Their researches have extended over many months and fowls placed on different diets, have been employed in detgermining the effect of various foodstuffs in producing beri-beri.
The medal of the American Medical Association was awarded last year to Dr. E.C. Rosenow, of the Institute of Infectious Diseases, of Chicago.
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