The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-29

| University in Baltimore and In laboratories
| elsewhere during eight years past. being
| considered Interesting by reason OF the Sc
| rious symptoms which it induced in guinea
| pigs, rats and other animals inoculated
with 1t. But nobody seriously suspected
| that 1t was the specific microbe Of yellow
fever. Dir. Sternberg, In his original report
OF the subject, had said that 1t was the
| only microbe among a number obtained by
him from yellow fever patients that de-
served to be considered suspicious. He
named II bacillus x Recently he has mads
producing all the symptoms OF yellow fever.
and incidentally confirming the truth Of
| Sanarelli's discovery.
Sanare!li's experiments with animals
have been very elaborate. He found that
| the best way to get the germs in quantity
| was to place a fragment OF liver taken from
| a newly deceased patient in an incubator
at moderately high temperature for
twelve hours, the conditions thus obtained
favoring the multiplication OF the mi
| croh.s. Cultures Of them killed white
| mice In five days and guinea pigs in eight
| days. Rabbits died In four or five days.
Horses proved very sensitive to the poison,
the rule seeming TO be that the sensitive
ness increased as the animals assembled in
the scale which eliminates in man. Mon
keys, for example. were exceedingly sensi-
tive. Among mammals only cats were able
TO resist the poison. Birds were not af-
fected by it. Dogs exhibited syraptvlns
most like those of human beings. These
symptoms are very complicated, the most
notable being fatty degeneration of the
| liver and kidneys and hemorrhage through
the lining of the stomach and intestines,
due 10 ths breaking down of the walls of
the blood vessels. The effect is a good deal
like that Of poisoning with cyanide of po-
tassium.
The germ OF yellow fever Is a little rod
with rounded ends. Sanarelli believes that
1t is taken into the human system either
by air that is breathed or water that is
drunk. II the lining membranes Of the
body are in healthy condition, 1t can no.
get through them and produce infection.
Hut any disturbance Of digestion, as by
abuse Of alcoholic and iced drinks "a bove
all in persons newly arrived in countries
where the disease exists-gives opportunity
for the entrance OF the microbe. The newly
| arrived In tropical countries are subject
to slight catarrh of the liver. which may
Facilitate the entrance Of the germ. One
odd circumstance about yellow fever Is that
the patient is very apt to die, not of the
disease itself. but from blood poisoning,
caused by septic microbes which make their
way into the blood and tissues through the
wallis OF the broken down vessels
The yellow fever germ having Seen iden-
tineu with certainty. the next step is To
manufacture a lymph which shall serve az
n cure for the disease. This Will be an
nntitoXin. produced after a method similar
TO that employed in the case of diphtherja
antitoxin. That Is to say, animals will be
rendered proof against the disease by very
small and gradually increasing doses of the
MI fnt., l.
ougniy loaded with the poison in this man
ner, some OF their bleoS will be drawn off
ana permitted to settle. The red portion
OF the blood falls to the bottom. leaving
the white part or serum at the top. This
serum is the antitoXin. and ia injected int
the human sufferer. Diphthersa autltoxin
IS obtained from horses, but 1t may be that
oogs VIII be preferred as providers of tho
remedy for yellow fever.
:" fnvnr OF the Inv. hut AEin It's
Enforcement.
To the Editor OF The Pest.
Some years ago a Kentucky politician nm
the stump, being asked how he stood nc
to some law that was obnoxious tn tba.
particular locality. answered: 81 am In
favor of the law, bu: agln its enforcement ;,
me city council of Houston, as wei, as
the OFFICERS thereof, for the past ,hir,,
years, I've noticed, seem to be Of n like
KIND We have fire limit" ordinance
Every little while petition has com, be.
lore the council for permission 10 eroct q
wooden frame with iron covering, or brick
ouiiding, or wooden transfer office mr.
some other evasion Of the law. rhe cam.
~ sometimes has granted direct, some
.,nts referred to the fire chief scmeti,,es
800, 70 .he mayor with power to act.
ru a, ,. postpones. but the result has al
most invariably been that the buildiny ~,
up. FRANKLIN avenue bridge ard lis sur
r'unaings and fires show some OF ii n "a
SUITS. "All OF us are In favor of Tho law
but asin its enforcement" ''"'
we have an ordinance defining to,,.
much the sidewalk can be used hv ~ !.
s'oNs fronting same. Almost every ne w
lnsrsnsi mas started in with clearing tb,
SIDEWALKS. When the ''relai,n US % ~
held here. we had spasno lie Gle, r.,, p :,
more severe one than usual. ,rhsy a.
cleared OH pawn shop tables and the frni,
stand on Main and Tranklin 4 shns.
TIME only elapsed wban oil were III.
again, and the last state Of th,, s.sh
was worse than the first" We haze ir,,s,
s ses with sidewalk warehouses: transfar
a,nss MIN sidewalk of;'css. fruit stands
ws,i ,no stieWain adjoining the store
wa' ana also covering the neutral cro,,,,
and the cutters; windows wider ,h'sn M =
regutsuon permits: showcases nm ,ha .ue
SIDE as well as the inside Of the nsysn,au.
ment," a"' i's ENFORCE
Some OF our officers seem strict in som.
losahties, lax in others some places 80 =
s,ee streets e'ackhoarsis have been srdore,
u IN W. mni hs on Main street counted five
many places are too narrow fer ~. ~u''e
sons 20 walk sbreast. In favor =, ~.
law. but ngin Its eniorccmcr.." - 'pe
J believe every tvs wears ar ss,.,