{{short description|U.S. Army physician}} {{more footnotes|date=March 2013}} thumb|Colonel Joseph Siler, MD Colonel '''Joseph Franklin Siler''', MD (1875–1960) was a U.S. Army physician noted for investigations of mosquito transmission of dengue fever in the Philippines and for ''Marijuana Smoking in Panama'', one of the first experimental reports on cannabis.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Madras | first1=B. | last2=Kuhar | first2=M. | title=The Effects of Drug Abuse on the Human Nervous System | publisher=Elsevier Science | year=2013 | page=428 | isbn=978-0-12-418685-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZBqAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA428 }}</ref>
Siler was commander the Laboratory Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I and undertook extensive experimental observations on the manufacture and immunizing efficacy of anti-typhoid vaccines.
== See also == * Army Medical School
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==External links== {{Commons category|Joseph Franklin Siler}} *[http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/misc/evprev/fig32.jpg Bayne-Jones, Stanhope (1968), ''The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939'', Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407004458/http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/misc/evprev/fig32.jpg |date=2008-04-07 }} (Photo of Siler)
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