The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-06
TO STAY THE PESTTLENCE.
DIR. CARMOyA'SMErHOD OF ISOC.
ULATION.
A United States Medical Commission
Ordered 10 RepOrtO on Its Efficacy
DIR. HOlsts Success.

DIR. HOlst's Success.
Washington spec al to the New Yorl
Herald: The subcommittee appoin.
ed by the Senate Committee on Epi
demic Diseases and the House Com
mittee on Commerce have decided h
repO iavorably a bill providing fo
the appointment of a committee 4
inve,t sate the cause and prevention
of yellow.fsvsr, and, in part cular, the
preventive methods devised by DR.
Carmona in Mexico and by DR.. Freirt
in Brazil. This conclusion bias been
reached at the instance Of expert med.
ical men-Drs. Holt, Toner, Hamilton,
Billings, Glhon and Walcott among
others-wto have been present at re-
cent sessions OF the subcommittee
and have given evidence in the case.
PROTECTION AS A NATIONAL MEASURE.
The hslplessness Of the best talent
in the country ID protect the people
against recurrence OF this epidemic
has been clearly shown and frankly
confessed. 1t has been shown also
how the interruption Of commerce
thus occasioned affects points far re-
moved from the seat OF attack, and
that the protection sought is not a
local but a national issue. The ex-
tent OF the yellow fever region in this
county is clea ly shown by a map
prepared by Er. Toner. II will
be teen that the pestilence
has moved from Brownsville TO
Quebec, and from Tampa TO Cincin-
matt and St. Louis. Dr.. Toner states
that the great cities Of the country
are especially exposed TO its rsvages,
aud that the rapid transit now afforded
by the inierlacing lines of railway
may carry it to any part tf the Coun-
try next summer. Under these cir
cumstsnces the chief end in view OF
the proposed commission-the inves-
tigstion of the method OF CaTmona-
becomes Of general interest Who is
CaTmons, and what did he do?
THE CARMoEA METHOD OF INocULA.
TON.
DIR. Manuel Carmona y Vale is the
senior professor OF clinical medicine
in the Mexican Medical College. His
germ theory method Of incubation
and exhibit Of practical results are
most explicitly sat forth in a recent
publication Cf his lectures and hospi.
tai notes, upon which the following
resume is based. Unlike Freire in
Brazil, he does not follow in the foot.
steps tf Pasteur avowedly, but he has
been pursuing O course of original
investigation on parallel line. For
The past twelve years he has been in.
emily engaged in this chosen work,
md rev speaks with the authority
derived from close observation, long
laboratory experiment. and
lctual tests in the yellow fever region.
Whether right or wrong, his concln.
iona deserve careful examination. He
Iets out with the determination OF
,ertain granulations, which must not
DO coDfounded, as he states, with the
characteristic bacteria OF putreiaction.
They are the sIo.es or seeds
Df a microscopic mushroom,
which by unioa in an ami
nal organisation form u yellow
(P1onosporea Luied), the
generating cause Of the ytllow-iever,
rs he asserts. He distinguishes these
from the bacteria OF pu-
.refaction by their characteristic trans.
formations, which have never been
noted in other bacteria. The bacteria
,f putrefaction are destroyed by con.
net with oxygen, as demonstrated by |
The so-oepores Of Carmona
retain their vitality unimpaired in
oxygen or in atmospheric air.
NOT THE PAsTRuR MICROBES.
They differ from the microbes noted
BY Pasteur in that they wilt ne re-
produce themselves in sterilized
liquids, and therefore the slterr atad
Inocula ions OF Pasteur, based on the
complete isolation OF the microbe, are
not applicable TO the yel'ow-fever en-
demic. They are found in myriads, It
Is alleged, in the blood, urine, vomit |
aud other excavations OF yellow.fever
patients, a1d retain their vitality after
the death Of the victims. II is in the
urine, however, that they can
be most readily detected and
ISOLATED. Viewed under a pow.
arful microscope, these granula.
ions appear az spores 24.1000 OF a
mi limeIe in diameter, Opaque, yel-
owish by reflected Highland vel o wish
ed by reiIaction, These spores, II a.
owed TO develop in urine or lsewhere,
always produce microscopic mush-
looms in the form Of little tubes |
branching into tilameuts. So plenti-
nj are they in yellow.fsver urine that
Dr.. Silva ArauRo { t Brazil detects what
ne forms "une veritable foret de |
tubes, or branches of microscopic |
gttable. From the f'aments OF |
hese tubes spring little spores 1000 |
4 a millimeter, transparent and |
(bidnchdtre). These little spores
nave the property OF rapid movement |
n oscillation, and, from their reaemb- |
ance TO little animalcules, are called |
io-oepoiauges. BY union in the ami
nal organism these 20 osporic z anu
atone, the fruit of the mushroom |
myctitum), become peronospores,
'wo 70 osporanges melting into one
)srono pore, so TO speak, and this
'eronoapore being the ia,al Perono. |
pored Lutcd.
CLASSIFICATION CT THE DISEASE.
In the classification Of this micro |
'hyte Carmonia f)llows the division
marked by DR.. Bertilon in his Die
.lonnaire Encyclopedique des Sciences
dedicsl de Dechambre
Mushroom.
Oh ,mpigncn.
Saroodes. Asarcodes.