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Men who achieve greatness, the brothers Mayo were to write in an essay about Gorgas, do not work more complexly than the average man, but more simply... In dealing with complex problems, with the simplicity natural to him he went directly to the point, unaffected by the confusion of details in which a smaller man would have lost himself. At Havana the hopeless task of destroying all mosquitoes was reduced to destroying a particular mosquito; then, once the natural peculiarities of that species were recognized, it was possible to reduce the task further still. The campaign would center on the insect's method of propagation.
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