Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-09
cohol and ;hromic and osmic acids.

cohOl and chronic and osmlc aclds.
At the same time studied the at
mosphere of the swamps, receiving III
cotton the bodies that were in sus-
pension in the air which crossed them
having for that purpose an apparatus
in operation at a convenient point.
During the day examined also the
waters of the swamps Of Belem, Ma
caou and other swamps remarkable
for breeding pestilence. During the
yellow fever epidemics dried the
blood taken from patients. putting
it into bottles or drying it on rags.
began my observations in the
month ofNovember, of 1880, with the
hemorhages and black vomit which,
had preserved from 1873 to 1879, and
in them l found only oval cells with
one shining spot upon each. The
black vomit and hemorrhages treated
by the chronic acid and showed oval
cells, some of them segmented and
others without the shining spot on
each segment. obtained the same
resultfrom those treated with the al
cohol and osmic acid. The studies
upon the black vomit ond then hem
orrhages of the month of February
and March, of 1880, l made in Decem-
Der Of last year.
| The method of development gave
me the idea that the oval cell was an
animal and not vegetal as l at first
thought. To seek for this animal |
went to Memphis, New Orleans, Vera
Cruz and Havana for the purpose Of
examining the waters, lakes and swamps
and the salt water Of the harbOr OF
Vera Cruz and Havana and of COM
pairing them with the water of the
Texcoco lake, near the city Of Mexi-
co. Neither in the Bayou of Mem
phis nor in the canals or swamps of
New Orleans nor in the POntchartrain
and TexcocO lake nor in the salt wa
tiers which battle the shores of the
Vera Cruz and Havana did | find any
, thing like the animal which / had
! found in hemorrhages and black
l vomit from yellow fever. In the
Z month of January, 1881, when exam
lining the water for drinking supplied
at Vera Cruz from the Jamapa river
I found the animal, the Odunsia, ad'
herring to the roots of aquatic plant!
and sediment. Sometime afterward
1 | discovered the Opunsia in tht
. swamps at Vera Cruz and in the Al
menda river at Havana.
q This, then, is the germ, which, en-
: tering the human body through th'
= water drank, sets to work being hi
: sexed as many of the bacillaria are
IS to beget an immense family of de
= stroyers which pervade the blood Q
v the victim and work havoc in his sys
TEN, besides furnishing an abundanc
If of offspring to be transported owe
e the world to start deadly epidemic
h wherever climatic and unsanitary con
j. ditions may favor.
" If the doctors discoveries are res
n discoveries, fact which it should NJ
h be difficult to determine since the az
le aminatiOns he made are open to 9TH
D. ers, the cause of yellow fever is prob'
A. bly, what is here claimed. If so, the
to it should not be difficult to find rem
% edy to kill off this microscopic mol
of ster. Who will do ito Perhaps,
x the doctors would safeguarding ov
1e their differences of remedial orth
h, doxy, cease their disputes about col
is ficting theories and set themselves
II. honest investigation, they would fin
H. out something ABOUT disease and i
of remedies.
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