Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-11
INOCULATING FOR CHOLERA.
The Successful Experiments of DIR.
Ferran, of Madrid.

Ferran, of Madrid.
The Madrid papers are full of details
on the experiments of incubation as
prcservative against cholera, which
have been made Ia Valencia by a
London Daily Telegraph. DR.. Jamie
Ferran is only 80 years of age, and,
after passing through the customary
curriculum at the Institutes Of Tortosa
and Tarragona, took his III. D. degree
at Barcelona He has been in prac~
tice at Tortosa for several years, and
is already well known III this country
and abroad for his works on micro
telephony, ia 1878, and for his Curl
Gus Investigations on micro biology
and parasites. which were rewarded
by the Royal Academy of Medicine in
Madrid DR. Ferran was sent to
Toulou and Marseilles during the last
epidemic of 1884, and he spent several
months with German, French and
Italian surgeons, studying the cpl
demic, and especially DR.. Koch's the
| cries on the common bacillus, or
cholera microbe. Those studies i'm
pelled Dr.. Ferran to pursue his in
vestigations on his return to his own
country, and he came to the conclu-
sion that DR.. Koch had only observed
one OF the many stages of this mi
crobe's successive developments.
Senior Ferran has discovered that by
submitting the comma bacillus to GER
| tain cheNical elements very similar
to the bile of animals and to the gas,
trio juice of the human stomach this
microbe passes through successive and
| invariable stages of development, in
one of which he has detected the eggs
which are, in his opinion, the real
generators and propagators of the
cholera.
DR., Ferran has made many experts
ments on men and animals, which
lead him to state that inoculation by
| this bacillus can produce the death
of animals with every symptom char
acteristic of cholera, and that the in
oculation OF human beings
creates symptoms Identical IN
their nature, but with less in>
tensity and no fatal results. The
incubation is generally practiced up
On the lower part of both arms. In
two or three hours it produces local
irritation, difficulty in moving the
limb, and dull pain. After about
| four or five hours the pulse rises to
la and even 120, and the heat Of the
body to 81 and 40 Centigrade. The
person thus inoculated feels languid,
shiyers, loses appetite and suffers
from nausea, diarrhosa, cramp and
sleeplessness. After twenty-four hours
these symptoms abate, and they geG>
orally disappear IN y-eigAt hours.
All successive inoculations, even
to the extent of eight cubic centimeters
OF virus, prove utterly harm
less both in adults and children. In
animals after inoculation, it has
been observed that successive and
larger doses Of virus, introduced by
inoculation, also prove harmless,
whereas these same doses produce
death with choleraic symptoms in any
animals not previously inoculated.
DR.. Ferran has also observed that
the local symptoms resulting from in
oculation. seldom vary, whereas the
general symptoms vary according to
each case. Not a single case has &C.
Cured in which successive inocula~
ton 10 men Or animals have caused
death. He has tried his experiments
on himself and other medical men,
and on hundreds of believers in this
p1eservative. He thinks himself,
therefore, justified in expecting from
these inoculations the same results as
have been obtained from inocalation
in smallpox and carbuncle. The
Madrid Academy Of Medicine sent
down commission of medical men,
aud their report is highly favorable to
Dr.. Ferran's experiments. Foreign
scientific and medical societies and
surgeons have taken great interest IN
these experiments, and have congratu
lated DR.. Ferran.