The Van Buren press., 1899-08-05
YELLOW FEVER PROBLEM.
The Army Medical Corps Will Take
Advantage of the Present Out
break to Investigate.
WILL TRY TO ISOLATE THE BACILLUS.
All are Not Agreed with the CORcIu-
sions Reached by Sanarclli. the
Italian Scientist, and Researches
viii he Continued in the Hope of
Reaching the Truth.

Washington, Aug. 3.-the present
outbreak of yellow fever At the Hamp
ten soldiers home will give the army
medical corps an excellent opportuni-
" to extend an investigation they have
been prosecuting for two gears past
into the nature of yellow fever and the
best modes of combating il. The ma
rine hospital service, which is in charge
o. the quarantine in the infected dis
t1ict. has been doing similar work. and
D.. Wasdin, the surgeon placed as an
expert in the Hampton home. is one
OF the two marine hospital surgeons
who recently returned from Cuba,
where they studied the disease in its
permanent home and made collections
o. culture for future observations.
Opinion of the Medical world.
Tie medical world at present is very
generally of the opinion that the
specific bacillus of yellow fever has
not vet been identified Recently the
announcement was made by Sanarelli,
an Italian scientist, that he had segrc-
gated the germ of yellow fever, and
this claim was later affirmed by Ger
man baeteriologist after somewhat
less exhaustive research.
Surgeon Sternbcrg's ..Bacillus."
Sun Igeon- General Sternberg, of the
army. who is regarded as one OF the
foremost American bactcriologists,
made a close study of the subject, and
isloated bacillus, which he did not
claim was the specific germ of yellow
fever. but one worthy of a closer study,
calling it for CONVENIENCE the "Bacil-
lus y. The army medical museum,
under Gen. Sternberg's directions,
took up the subject. and Doctors Reed
and Carroll recently issued prelimi-
nary note on the museums inyestiga-
tions. in which they SET forth the state
lnen+ that 50 far as determined the
bacillus of Sanarelli and the Bacillus
y" OF Sternberg were identical in
their general form and their effects on
the lower animals. and that both
seemed to be identical or very closely
alleu with the bacillus of hog cholera.
Lessons Produced are Identical.
The LESSONS produced by the three
germs were the same, ana samples of
the most expert scientists in the line
% agricultural chemistry and animal
industry were pronounced to be the
germ of hog cholera.
This seemed to leave the question
open. but Doctors Reed and Carroll are
continuing their researches with the
Intention of locating the active princl-
pie in yellow fever, whatever it is.
DR.. Doty's Claims.
Meantime, DR.. Doty, the health officer
a. New York. claims to have confirmed
sdnarelli's discovery, and is carrying
on series of curative experiments
with serum for the destruction of
the Sanarelli germ. The army medical
officers say, however, that no germ
which can stand temperature of 36l
de orees below zero can be the germ of
yellow fever. which is known to cease
its ravages on the appearance of frost.
The Sauarelli germ was recently sub
merged in frozen air and came out
ready for business. The report of
Doctors Wasdin and Ge'ldings, of the
marine hospital. on their Cuban re-
searches. has not yet been made pub
lie, but it is understood that they
agree with Sanarelli.