The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-11
Cholera incubation.

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the theory of inoculation as a preven-
ton of smallpox or rather a mitiga-
ton of the same he met with the
usual ridicuie attending men who
startle the world by innovations and
only success forced conviction. But
DIR. Jenuer built wiser than he knew,
and in his discovery appeared the way
TO new discoveries, or rather BROAD
cr application of the principle under
lying incubation for smallpox. The
theory on which incubation is based
is that of virus attenuation or simply
that soil or blood or any medium of
growth being deprived of certain ele-
ments, those plants and insects or
parasites which feed on such elements
will in such soil or blood be deprived
of vigor, and in the case of zymnotic
diseases rendered harmless. The ap-
plication of this theory has been
abundantly demonstrated in the at
tenuation of smallpox virus, and it
now remains to apply iuoculation to
other amenable diseases, notably TO
cholera. The subject has been eagerly
discussed by the medical fraternity
the success of incubation firmly be-
lieved in, aud IL is now simply mat
ter of experiment which will take
place this year in many remotely stu
ated places owing to the general
spread OF the cholera, aud opporluni-
ty Tor experiment Afforded thereby
We find in the press accounts of au
experiment already made on large
scale by the original author of The
idea of the application ofinoculation t,
cholera, DIR. Ferran, of Valencia, Spain
I he experiments are being made b!
DR.. Ferran, under the eyes of seycra
scientific commissions at Alcira
Spain, where cholera is now raging
and the results have been PARTIAL.
announced, and are such as to encuur
age the expectation that cholera vii
, prove ms amenable to iuoeulaton II
smallpox has already done.
The population of Alcira is 5000
and since tile first of May 5,432 of th
inhabitants have been inoculate
with cholera virus, leaving abou
10000 not inoculaled. Of tn
-llO.OOO hot inoculated cholcr
Is has attacked sixty-four, and HI
been fatal 1880. Ofthe 5,432, who HAY
been iuoculated, il has, accordin
IS to DIR. Ferran's report, attacked on
seven, and has proved fatal in no sill
= gle case, that is one person, in eveI
1863 of the iuoculated have been a
tackled aud one person to every n
60 has died, while among the inoculht'
50 only one in 776 has been attacked al
" not a single person of the 5,I32 HI
80 died. DIR. Ferran has sent an urge
80 request that the British governmcI
. send medical commission to obser'
IN. the experiments going Oh at Allen
. This news ofthe successful applicable
II. of inocculation to cholera, will raj
- with anything novel in important
and cholera incubation will prove
III great u blessing to the race rs SINS
he pOx incubation has done. For IT
. not that death can ever be averted
medical skill, but il eau be SO moo
- fled so as to be regular aud unitoru
Epidemics are to be dreaded, not
much on account of the death ra
' but for the disturbance they work
the social economy and the wi
Us spread suffering, both mental aud ph
in steal they occasion. The ravag
of au army arc not worse than I
ravages of en epidemic End n bot
IN the death list is but modicum of I
nc real distress I'd disasters so that
u epidemics CT be mastered, no wor
can paint the beneiicent iniluenc
= flowing thcrefrom. Should the c
= periments now going forward NJ
, those which WI" be made all ov
a, Europe prove satisfactory inoculati'
for cholera win at once be adopt
when the visitation OF the scourge
IL threatened, as il II not be forced
o. fight its way which he's already be
le paved by the success of smallpox /
mr. oculation. Inocplation is also bell
made matter OF experiment in Me
y