The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-20
A sEARcHBR FOR MICROBES.
A French Doctor Who Proposes to
TRY His Treatment in Jacksonville.

A French Doctor Who proposes TO
Try His Treatment in Jacksonville.
From, the Ne,o York Herald Gable.
DR.. Paul Gabier, the young physician
whose investigations of the anti-cholera sys-
tenn of DIR. Ferran were described in the
Herald at the time of the 1885 epidemic in
Valencia, leaves France next Saturday for
Florida, where he intends studying yellow
fever He goes on an official mission from
the French government. Last year he
made an exhaustive inquiry into the subject
in Cuba, and in his report, read the other
day before the Paris Academy of Medicine,
he expressed his conviction that the microbe
of yellow fever differed little from the chol-
era bacillus, and, like it, was almost inva-
riably found in the intestines.
DIR. GABIER's PLANS.
81 shall settle down in Jacksonville for
the time beiugn said the doctor, land have
another hunt for that microbe, but don't
expect to find it anywhere but in the iutes-
tines. My belief is that yellow fever is
analogous to cholera"
Knowing the conclusions you formed,
after your experiments with DR.. Ferran's
anti-cholera virus, l suppose you do not be-
lleve in incubation being a preventive of
yellow feverH
81 do not tried the system on myself
in Havana without good results, and with
some results which gave me little wish to
repeat the test. Repeated microscopic ex-
aminations showed me not yellow fever
microbe in my blood.
DIR. FREIRE's MICRoBE.
"For conscience sake, however, inocu-
lated myself with the microbe which Dr.
Freire had shown us in Paris, and which we
have since studied together. The first ex-
perience was not followed by any accident,
but a simultaneous injection which tried
a week afterward laid me up and produced
alarming symptoms"
"What do YOU think of DIR. Gamaleia's
microbeg"
81 think it's a mere repetition OF Dr.
Ferran's, and just as mistaken. The medi
cal authorities are on the wrong track. lis
Sc sont embdlles If DR.. Gamaleia were
right, Dr. Koch's ideas would be upset
altogether"
"How do you explain yellow fever, doc
torg'
A LOCAL AFFECTION.
"My firm belief is that yellow fever is a
local affection, of which the first cause Is
the development of microbes in the intes-
tines. 1t fourishes only under peculiar
conditions of climate, race and tempera-
ture."
"What treatment do you suggest for lts"
THE general treatment consists in keep
ing I'D the strength of the patient and care
fully watching the action of the kidneys.
Strychnine, acohol and champagne will in
some cases be found useful, but the local
treatment is by far the most important
point. At the very outset of the illness l
should prescribe purgatives The first day
the patient should be given thirty-hve to
forty-fve grains of sulphate of soda; the
next day he should take forty or fifty
grammes of castor oil in two or three
doses: on the third day one gramme OF
calomel might be administered.
REPEATING THE DOSE.
1.-THE pre- ,criptions should be varied in
this wav for week If the patient vomits,
a dose of the medicine equal to the quantity
thrown up should be again administered
with little ice.
I'm at least one instance can vouch for
n patient having been cured, after he had
been given up and when he was In semi
comatose state, by the administration of a
vigorous enema. The intestines should be
treated like an infected wound, by cleansing
and disinfecting.
DESPERATE CASE CURED.
"When was in the West Indies the doc
tors handed desperate case to me to try
nj ba