The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-05-30
TUE CHOLERA.

twenty lONue III tue provinces OF
Valencia aud Alicante. This fact
is admitted on all hands, but the
reports of the fearful proportion
of tho deaths TO the number of
persons attacked cannot be yeri-
fed or disproyed, owing to the
rigorous censorship of the press,
which has been re.establishod by
the government. Both tho Off
cials and the doctors declared
positively for weeks after the out
break ut Jativa that tho disease
was not cholera. During the first
week In April, however, its spread
became so alarming that further
concealmeEt was impossible, and
the government officially warned
the provincial authorities through
out the kingdom aud took other
steps to isolate the disease.
These measures caused Franco,
Holland and Portugal to declare
quarantine against Spanish yes.
sells, and the officials are now try.
ing to undo the effect of their for.
mcr admission by conccaling as
much as possible every unfavora.
bio fact. Thoy have also spread
glowing accounts of tho success
of DIR. Ferran's new system Of mi.
crobic inoculation as q preventive.
DIR. PERRAN's NEGOTIATIONS.
DIR. Jaime Fcrran, who has in.
oculated thousands of persons in
Spain, Is o young Catalan physi-
clan about tbirty-three years old,
who was educated Mt Tortcsa and
Tarragona aud took his degree of
NJ. ID. at Barcelona. He has prac.
ticod at Tortosa for some years.
He is well known in medical cir.
cles throughout tho world for his
works on micro telephony in 1875.
and his curious investigations of
microtrology and parasites, for
which he was rewarded by tho
Royal Academy of Medicine at
Madrid. Last year he visited
Toulon and Marscillcs and spent
several months with tho French,
German and Italian surgeons,
studying the cholera epidemic, co.
pecially with reference to DR.
Koch's theories. "Those studioe,' ?
says a correspondent of tho Lon
don Standard, "impcllcd DR.. Fer
ran to pursue his investigations
on his return 10 his own country
and he thus came TO tho conclu
sion that DR.. Koch had only oh
served one or the many stages 0
this microbes successive develop
ments. Senor Ferrau has discov
cred that, by submitting The com
ma bacillus to certain chemical el
emcnts very similar to the bile o
animals and to tho gastric juice 0
the human stomach, tho microb
passes through successive an,
various stages of development, il
one of which he has detected th
eggs, which arc, in his opinion
tho real generators and propags
tors of cholera. DIR. Fcrran ha
made many experiments on me
and ANIMALS, which lead him I
state that incubation by this bs
cillus can produce the death G
animals with every symptom cha
acLerisiic of cholera, aud that th
inoculstion Of human beings CT,
ates symptoms identical in the
nature, but with less intensity an
no fatal results. The inoculatio
is generally practiced on the low
er part of both arms. In two c
throe hours it produces local irF
: tation, . difficulty in moving th
limbs, and dull pain. After abol
four or FIVE hours the pulses rif
to III and even to 12O, and IL
hoat of the body to 81 degrees all
} 40 degrees CeDtigrade. The pc
. son thus inoculatod feels laugui
shivers, loses appetite, and suffel
. from nausea, diarrhea, cramp, an
; sleeplsssness. After twenty. fol
hours these symptoms abate, au
they generally disappear in fort.
e eight hours. All successive ino
ulations, oven to the extent
eight centimeters OF virus, prov
y utterly harmless, both IN adul
and children. In animals, aft
t inocculation, il has been observe
: that successive and larger dos'
q Of virus, introduced by inocul
ton, also prove harmless, where's
these same doses produce dcat
o with choleraic symptoms in al
Q animals not previously inoculate
|. DIR. Ferran has also observed thi
/. the local symptoms resulting fro
! inoculation seldom vary, where's
: the general symptoms vary acc0r
|, ing to each case. Not a sing
Q case has occurred in which gu
r cessive inoculatious in men or q
imals have caused death. lIo h;
tried bis experiments on hims,
: and other medical men and ,
bunlrada of holinvara in this m