Frederick Rose (surgeon)

Frederick A. Rose (died July 1873) was a British naval surgeon honoured by the United States Congress for caring for American sailors during a yellow fever outbreak. When the American warship USS Susquehanna reached Port Royal in Jamaica with the disease aboard, the Royal Navy under Admiral Sir Houston Stewart opened its naval hospital to the stricken crew and eighty-five men were taken ashore. Rose, then an assistant surgeon, volunteered to join the Susquehanna at some personal risk and looked after the sick who remained aboard on the voyage from Jamaica to New York City. This was before Walter Reed showed in 1900 that mosquitoes carry the virus. In 1858 he received the Congressional Gold Medal, the first time that medal was given to anyone outside the United States military.