The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-16
YELLOW JACK GERM
NO TREATMENT THAT Is SUCCESS
Full HAS YET BEEN FOUND.

While Two specialists Claim to Have In
dividualized the Microbe Their Claim
Are Doubted-Disease Attacks tn,
| BLOOD Coils aud ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
of the Maiady aud the Treachsrous Ap
First Three Days-Otd Treatment of
| Hot Bath of Vinegar and Water Is Coco
New York, Sept. 15.-The Herald says
The outbreak Of yellow fever a Ocean
| Springs. Miss, has attracted widespread
| attention once again to the disease and
its terrors, and reawakens the hope that
| the time is not far off when science may
discover specific for its treatment as
well as a preventive whose potency will
be no more a matter Of dispute than is
the vaccine virus in the case Of small
pox epidemics.
DR.. SanarelH, young Italian physi-
clan, disciple Of DR.. Roux, and who
Pasteur Institute, Paris. claims, it is true
10 be the original discoverer Of a mi
crc5a which he Identifies as the yellow
fever germ. The discovery, says, was
m4de during a series Of investigation
in South America in the early part Of
this year. The doctor then named the
germ the bacillus icteroide. He asserts
that this bacillus was found in the blood
Of yellow fever patients, and was not
diScoverable in the vomited materials or
IN the contents Of the intestines. The
fever, according to this theory, is due to
the poison sacreted by this microbe.
The bacillus in question is described
by DR.. Sanareli as being peculiar in
shape, having .te form Of little sticks,
round and panied at the extremities, be,
ing united pair by pair in cultures and
in small groups in the human textures.
They are exceedingly minute, being
from two to four thousandths Of a milli-
metre in length and generally two OF
three times longer than wide.
Dr.. Sanarelli, in a papre read before
the congress of South American physi-
clans at Montevideo last June, which has
that he had made five experiments on
men by injecting the antitoxin formed
from the bacillus. and in all cases il was
claimed the symptoms of yellow fever
were produced. He believed, he said,
that the microbe in causing the yellow
fever penetrates the liver when injuries
have been inflicted in that region, or
enters wounds in other parts of the body;
that 1t is Indigenous to hot climates and
thrives in confined and lily ventilated
localities. This explains, DR.. Sanarelli
thinks, the frightful ravages Of yellow
fever on board ships and in badly venti- |
lated, damp, moist places or apartments.
The claim of DR.. Sanarelli to the orig
inal discovery OF the supposed yellow
fever micro5e is however disputed by
the friends Of DR.. Dom;ngos Freire, Of |
Rio. DR.. Freire's investigations date
back to 1852, when he individualized |
what he termed the crytococcus zantho-
senicus, which was subsequently recog- !
lized by DR.. Findlay, of HAVANA, and |
Dr.. Gerard, Of Panama. Dr. Wolfred !
Nelson. formerly Of the Panama board |
IF Health, lie authority for the statement |
hat the virus prepared by DR.. Freire /
rom &C ulture Of the germs discovered |
by him has actually been found to be
lutte a preventive of the disease as
vaccine is OF smallpox. DR.. Nelson told
| Herald reporter that DR.. Gerard inoc-
Hated himself with the Freire prepara-
ion after having tried 1t successfully on
'uina pigs. Subsequently DR.. Gerard
vas bitten by a mosquito which flew
rom the body Of a yellow fever patient
whom he was attending and lit on the
octors hand, drawing the blood. A mild
ype Of yellow fever resulted, but his
fe was saved by his self-inoculation
With the Freire fluid
II must be stated, however, that medi-
al opinions differ very widely with re-
ard TO the identity of the yellow fever
ERIN, and DR.. Sternberg, who has been
ndeavoring TO isolate the much sought
fter microDe, recently reported that as
Ct ne had not succeeded
DR.. Cleary Of the Marine Hospital Ser
ice, writing from Rio recently. saws
18th regard to DR.. Sanareli's claims
nat he seems to have satisfied all pro-
there Of their truth. Il hope
is true" adds DR.. Cleary, but have .
utlived so many discoveries in the same
a. ma CIV a. llOIl 4
So far, too. no specific has been found
n the treatment Of yellow fever, a.
lough the bichloride OF mercury appears u
} exercise some beneficial action. De.
ressing remedies must be avoided. I
Cold and evaporating lotions 10 the {
aad, says an eminent authority, may ,
'event brain symptoms. Ice, eflervesc- {
g waters or champagne in small guam {
ties and other remedies for composing
lie stomach are valuable Ammonium | ,
lroonate may help oxygenate the |
ood. Quiet, discreet nursing, warm
inks and blanketing and, later, abund- :
1t nutrition are found 10 be the best I
Id most successful means Of cure. The !
ortality is very much greater among 7
itients who have been addicted to alco-
'lc liquors than among others. In '
Iigent nursing. il should be remem- c
red, is prime requisite to insure re- a
very" G
Captain John r. Jones. an old Flori- I
an who was Health Officer OF Tampa !
Irin the epidemic o. 1857, and who I
d himself a severe attack OF yellow a
yer in 1883, obtained excellen; praoti- ?
/ results from this treament:-First, a y
c bath OF vinigar and water This
Is followed by q gentle cathartic. az
: which mustard plasters were applied p
WI the spine Of % the back. ana TO .
q stomach. This he found in MS own I
4 other cases checked the vomiting u
d relieved the pain. Champagne he Il
IND an excellent stimulant. but he did
+; find ice effective except when black ! V
nit threatened. He deemed most i'm p
rant - get the patient into good G
aspiration and keep him in il. Many d
-sons ne found died from reiaose a
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