The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-20
Psychologists Of Marine Hospital Service
viii Report He Is Right
FINDING OF GREAT. IMPORTANCE.
Dr. rob Glres Els Wsws-Rs Says Endorsement
OF Marine Hospital Doctors viii Go Far To-
ward Concluding Tho Whole Matter.

Washington, July 20.-There appears
TO be no longer any doubt that Prof.
Giuseppe Sanarelli of Montevideo. Uru-
quay, is the discoverer OF the specific
germ OF yellow fever. This fact, 1t Is
understood, will be elaborated In the
forthcoming report of DR.. II. ID. Ged-
dings OF the Marine hospital service.
DIR. Geddings report. which Is nearly
completed, covers a thorough investi-
cation of the subject in New orleans
and Havana and is based on expert
ments made In the yellow fever dis
tricts.
In view OF the universal interest felt
in this subject the greatest care Is be-
ing taken i'm the preparation of the re-
port. At the Marine hospital bureau
Surgeon General Wyman declines TO
anticipate the report or discuss any OF
it's features. Ii is known, however, that
the latest experiments have demon
strated that Prof. Sanarelli's claim To
have discovered i'm his bacillus ictero-
ides the cause OF the disease VIII be
sustained by the report of the bacteri-
Former experiments with the Sana-
relli serum while not absolutely con-
vincing. indicated very clearly that the
professor had geached the nearest point
to the solution of this problem which
has so long puzzled the medical frater-
nifty.
Dr. Wyman had presented to him by
Prof Sanarelli two years ago, through
the consul of the United States at
Montevideo, a quantity of this serum.
and 1t was tested experimentally dur
ing the yellow fever epidemic of 1897
in the South by Surgeon Wasdin, but.
owing TO the mildness of the cases
treated. the test OF its efficiency was
not satisfactory.
Surgeon General wyman said the
members of the yellow fever commits
sion in Havana had reported TO him
that they had made a test of the serum
in the laboratory on animals and that
IL was not considered TO be OF SUM
cient potency TO be effective, in fact
that in a communication from Sanar-
ELI himself to them ne had admitted
as much.
In a preliminary report published By
the Marine hospital service on Novem
bef IL. 1898, the commission In Havana
indicated very strongly their belief tha
the Sanarelli was the true germ OF
yellow fever, and in the hygienic labo
ratory of the service the preparation o.
serum, anti-amaryllic, by improved
methods, which will give sufficient po
tency, has already been begun.
New York, July 20.-Dr. A. III. Doty
health officer of the port OF New York
heard with interest the report that bac
teriologists of the Marine hospital ser
vice would indorse Prof. Sanarellf'
claim To have discovered the organism
of yellow fever.
"Dr. Geddings and DIR. Wasdin ar
able bacteriologists," said DR.. Doty
"and their statements are regarded a
conscientious and conservative. If
be true that the report of their investi
cation 10 determine the cause of yello,
fever indorses the claim made by San
arelli lat he has isolated the specifi
organism Of this disease. IL will go IA
toward bringing TO a conclusion tn
matter in which we are all so deeply in
ferpStpd."