Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-02-11
Iuoculntion for Diseases.

who accidentally found thht CIT
tain milk.maids who attended TO
COWS with sores on their udders,
became inoculatcd by the poison
and by this simple method purchas'
ed immunity from one of til. most
dreadful mala!ics known to the
human race. Jcnncr was the first
to vaccinate or inoculate. His pro-
icct naturally met great opposition,
and strange 10 say that after the
light OF centuries, and the best i'll
tcllects of \ scientific profession
have passed upon it, still We lind
some who tliShrlicve III it's protect !
i've properties. This ancient prac'
,ice is again being being brought |
~ the front, and our Drs. in the
near future propose to protect w
from all contagious diseases OF one
attack, ~ yellow fever, hydropho'
bia, etc. NJ. Pasteur has protected
the vast hearls of sheep in France
from the rayagcs Of Charlton, do.
nestle fowls from chicken cholera,
and now claims that he has the Ba-
cillus Hydrophobiic under his sci
entitic grasp. Children bitten by
q mad dog in New Jcrsy have cross
ell the pond, to try the healing
properties of his attenuatcd Hydro
phohic. Frcirc ard Cormona,
Spanish American physicians clam
that 10y inocu!ation Of a;tcnuatcl
yellow fever germs that they have
chained down the monster that
"walketh in darkness, AMI wastctI
at MONDAY" Their grounds and
arguments are so well taken that
they have elected the attention of
the medical world, aud bill will
soon be introduced into the L. ).
congress for g. purpose oiappoint,
in. u competent committee to visit
Brazilc, the home and breeding
place of this festive germ, AMI see
il prevention OF yellow fever has
or can be discovered. yellow fever
is "A disease Of one raroxysm, typi'
caliy n disease of one type, III these
two points il is II twin sister 10
small pox. Why then. with the
field OF Bacicriology so well cx-
plorcd by microscopic lenses of ten
thousand diameterS, cannot this
disease, that has sealed the com.
mcrcial prosperity of more than
two Southern cities, bc prevented
10y incubation as well rs small pox
Charlton, chicken cholera, AMI the
like. When we reflect upon the
lcsOlation and fearful mortality of
yellow fever in 1873, how the great
trade cen,ers of tho South were cut
of 10y quarantine from the CONNER
cial world, the brilliant intellec,s
that passed into untimcly graves
with LIES race of brilliant posslhili-
! ties hardly haltrun, the great im'
por;ance of the subject begins TO
dawn upon us, and We say God
speed TO any investigation looking
TO its determination. No ore can
estimate how far the future devel.
opment OF our Southern country
depends upon this one subject, VIZ;
the determination of yellow fever.
We hope that every Southern
Senator and Representative will he
placed OH record, on the right side
of this all important question when
il comes up. Let thorough in.
vcstigation be made and our most
scientific physicians pat upon it so
as to ferret out the hiding place of
this monstrous plague. We would
not be understood by this to say
that any incubation so far prac'
ticed is n prevention against this
dreaded malady.
1t will DO remembered that in
1877 a yellow fever commission
was sent TO Havana, and the finest
microscopic in the United States,
together with the most scientific
yellow fever specialists, making an
investigation extending over sever.
nj months. All their efforts, so far
rs finding out the cause OF yellow
fever, were negative They used
maguifying lenses of 1000 diane.
tres, AMI with their microscopcs,in
the bands of experts, AMI in blood
and tissues taken from men dying
of yellow fever they failed to find
the cryptococcus in tho blood which
Fertier has raised such II tempest
about. In his experiments OH AMI.
mails, too few have been operated
upon to form any definite conclu.
sion. He claims that only the rab
bit and guinea pigs are susceptible
to the poison. These af(er being
inOculated with blood from yellow
fever cadaveres developed the same
germ in the blood that he claims
transmits the poison, and the AMI
mails would usually die in from one
TO two days. In only n few animals
has he tried incubation with the at