The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-02-19
THIS WILL Be NICE
A NV and Terribly Fatal ScourSs
Coming N2I. Year.
LOOK OUT FOR THE "KARA"
a Wanna Physician Tells OF a Dis
ease Which VIII Ravass ths
wcrld NlthIn Two Years
From the siberian Mines.

TORONTO. Feb. ls.-Dr. Paul Dohell. one
OF the most eminent physicians in Ed
rope, is guest NJ tho Rossin house In this
city. lie registers from Vienna, Austria.
As a matter OF fact his practice extends
throughout Europe. DIR. Dobell VISITS
America for the first time. ~pelking to
reporter last evening, he said that an en-
tircly new disease had recently man.-
tested itself in Russia and would. no
doubt, within two or three years, over
spread Europe and America, as grippe
had done. The disease was At present
only ia It's inlta;ory stages, bu; the re-
suits. so far as had been ascertained. we're
more deadly than any infectious disease,
except cholera, known within recent years.
The birth of tho disease has been traced
TO tho Kara miucs in Siberia, and takes
lis name from them. IL maniicsts itself
in the form of white rash about tho
nose, mouth aud eyes. Within day or
two tho patient loses the power Of speech
and ght, and Is hours later usually dies
from paralysis Of the BRAN.
Speaking with reference TO the knovl.
edge medical men have Of the disease, DR..
Dobell said:
The great difficulty in cases OF Kara
is that until the white rash appears,
which is certain sign, the patient feels
we'll and therefore does not consult a
medical mau. l have been making a
study of the disease for months aud have
arrived at the conclusion that hot min
eral baths, II taken In time, prove elect
i've. OF course, il would be idle for me or
any other medical man to say that the
disease was Thoroughly understood at
present. have no idea as to what origi.
mates the disease. and until such time as
We know that important point, no per-
Inanent advance will be made in secur-
| Ing a curative. so anxious was to learn
the cause. that last spring | went to the
| source of the evil. the mines, by special
| permission, and there learned that the
first victim had been a little girl, the
daughter OF one of the governors staff.
Within two weeks of her death over -
conycts had died aud seven guards. The
child had never been sick previously, ex-
cep;ing having suffered such ailments as
children usually are subject to. She was
years of age at death. remained three
months in the neighborhood of the mines,
aud attended several hundred patients.
| libHR VI many
OF them, and in all cases discovered that
the pus secreted in large quantities in the
head and throat contained bacilll of a
light brown color.
"The bacilli Of tuberculosis are
white.
| This proves that the disease has diff
ferent origin. | then began to expert
ment. | selected one group of prisoners
and gave them q certain kind of medi-
cine. Another group received another
kind, and SO on. found that in some
cases after the rash appeared the patients
taking one kind OF medicine would die
within two days. Those taking another
kind would live perhaps week, and in
other cases three weeks. | found that
many OF those who had taken mineral
baths would survive"
"Is the disease very painrul."
"So; that Is the peculiar part Of il.
Patients do not seem TO suffer any pain.
They feel uncomfortable as though they
had bad cold in the head. That Is all Sc
far as can discover"
"Do you think the disease will spread ?''
"Unlcss some remedy can be quickly
found, think that within .wo years al
most the disease will be as common in
Europe and America rs grippe