The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-05
.1j0N fever PROBLEM.
=. .,my Medical Corps Will Take
Advantage Of the Present Out
break to Investigate.
n, Try 70 ISOLATE tue BACILLUS.
yot Agreed with the Conclu-
~ uenched by Sanarelli, the
Italian Scientist ana Me.earehe.
viii be Continued in the Hope Of
...chlng the Truth.

weak Of yellow fever at the Hamp'
o'''o'di 'o,diers' home will give the army
'op ,Sa1 corps an excellent opportuni.
r'fu'u " axtend an investigation they have
w. 1nrosecuting for two years past
ese' e. the nature of yellow fever and the
INTO m nodes Of combating it. The ma.
l'ss %s, hospital service,which is in charge
'ln. ~. n,,orantine in the infected dis.
" y ~ -. has been doing similar work, and
VIZ, y, wasdin, the surgeon placed as an
W. a,, in the Hampton home, is one
esp ~. two marine hospital surgeons
., ',o ~ recently returned from Cuba,
Nss ssr, they studied the disease in its
VIM nn,.upnt home and made collections
culture for future observations.
oi onin,on Of the Medical World.
rt,. medical world at present is very
asra]lv of the opinion that the
t.scitic s,. bacillus Of yellow fever has
spt sp vet been identified. Recently the
nsa,'uncement ~, was made by Sanarelli,
. ~ It,,;an scientist, that he had segre-
aate,, the germ Of yellow fever, and
s .h;s claim was later affirmed by a Ger
m,o ' bacteriologist after somewhat
,.ss exhaustive research.
w surgeon stcrnberg'" "Dacillu"."
sn, oeon-General Sternberg, of the
,,my who is regarded as one OF the
,oren,ost American bactcriologists,
made close study of the subject, and
;,loated a bacillus, which he did not
e,a;n, was the specific germ of yellow
tsyrr. but one worthy of closer study,
..ll;ny it for CONVENIENCE the "Bacil-
lus x" The army medical museum,
ruaer Gen. Sternberg's directions,
took M the subject, and Doctors Reed
md Carroll recently issued a prelimi-
nary note on the museums investiga-
ticus, in which they set forth the state
,opu+ that so far as determined the
bacillus of Sanurelli and the Bacillus
\" Of Sternberg were Identical i'll
their general form and their effects on
thp lower animals, and that both
seemed to be identical or very closely
aeo with the bacillus OF hog cholera
Lestons Produced are Identical.
The LESSONS produced by the three
germs were the same, and samples o;
tl,e most expert scientists in the line
ot agricultural chemistry and animal
industry were pronounced to be thu
germ of hog cholera.
This seemed to leave the question
open, but Doctors Reed and Carroll ar'
continuing their. researches with thu
Intention of locating the active princi
pIt in yellow fever, whatever it is
DR.. Doty's Claims.
Meantime, DIR. Doty, the health office
al New York, claims to have confirme;
S,narelli's discovery, and is carryin;
on series of curative experiments
with a serum for the destruction o
the Sanarelli germ. The army medica
officers say, however, that no germ
which can stand temperature OF 36
degrees below zero can be the germ o
yellow fever, which is known to ceas'
its ranges on the appearance of fros:
The Sanarelli germ was recently sub
merged in frozen air and came ou
ready for business. The report o
Doctors Wasdin and Geddings, of tn
marine hospital, on their Cuban re
searches, has not yet been made pub
lie, but it is understood that the,
nprae with Sonarplf