The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1886-09-18
NEGOTIATING FOR CHOLERA.


Alclon In Spafn-FavOrablo Results
london Telegraph
The Madrid papers are full of details
on the experiments of incubation as
a preservatiye against cholera, which
have been made in Valencia by young
Catalan physician. DR.. Jaime Ferran is
only 81 years of age, and, after passing
through the customary curriculum at the
institutes of Tortosa and Terragona. took
his NJ. d. degree at Barcelona. He has
been in practice at Tortosa for several
years, and is already well known in this
country and abroad for his works on
nitro-telephony in 1878, and for his |
curious Investigations on micro
biology and parasites which were
rewarded by the Royal Academy of
Medicine in Madrid. Dr. Ferran was
sent to Toulon and Marsolles during
the last epidemic of 1884, and he spent
several months with German, French
and Italian surgeons, studying the
epidemic, and especially Dr.. Koch's
theories ON the comma bacillus, or
cholera microbe. Those studies impelled
Or. Ferran to pursue his investigations
On his return to his own country, and
he thus came to the conclusion that Dr.
Koch had only observed one of the many
stages of this microbes successive
developments. Senior Ferran has dis
covered that by submitting the comma
bacillus to certain chemical elements
very similar to the bile of animals and
to the gastric juice of the human
stomach this microbe passes through
successive and inyariable stages of
development, in ono of which he has
detected the eggs, which are in his
opinion, the real generators and propa-
gators of cholera
DR.. Ferran has made many expert =
ments on men and animals, which lead
him to state that incubation by this
bacillus can produce tho death of ami
mails with every symptom characteristic
OF cholera, and that the incubation of
human beings creates symptoms identi-
cal in their nature, but with less in IL
tensity and no fatal results. The moe
tlatlon is generally practiced upon the r
lower part if both arms. In two or y
three hou it produces local irritation, :"
difiicn. IN moving the limb, and dull n
pain. After about four or five "
hours the pulse rises to ia and even +,
100, and the heat of the body r.
to thirty and forty centigrade. n
The person thus inoculated feels languid, / W
loses appetite, and suffers from
nausea, diarrhGa, cramp and sleepless- =
ness. After twenty four hours these 8
symptoms abate, and they generally
disappear in forty eight hours. All u
successive NEGOTIATIONS, even to the ex- s.
5ent of eight cubic cennmeters of virus, RI
prove utterly harmless, both in adults
md children. In animals, after inocu- y,
alton, it has been observed that success ~
i've and larger doses of virus, intro VI
iuced by incubation, also prove harm -
ess. whereas these same doses produce 6
leath with choleraic symptoms in any e
nimals not previously inoculated. 3
DIR. Ferran has also observed that the o
ocal symptoms resulting from inocula- s
ion seldom vary, whereas the general
ymptoms vary according to each case. <
'ot single case has occurred in which :
NEGOTIATIONS in men or ami =
lals have caused death He has tried %
is experiments on himself and other W,
lcdical men, and on hundreds of be- sadd
evers in this preventative He thinks Hack ,.
lmself therefore, justified in expecting to be
ON these NEGOTIATIONS tho same results
J have been obtained from incubation orc
smallpox and carbupcle. The Madrid sttsn
'ademy of medicine sent down a com -
ission of medical men, and their re-
'rt is highly favorable to DR.. Ferran's
periments. Foreign scientific and
edlcal societies and surgeons have
ken great interest in these expert
ents, and have congratulated DR.. Fer