The Forrest City times., 1899-08-04
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 Corclu- sions Reached by Sanarelli, the Italian Scientist, and Researches Will he Continued in the Hope of Reaching the Truth.

Washington, Aug. 3.-The present outbreak of yellow fever at the Hamp- ton soldiers home will give the army medical corps an excellent opportuni- ty to extend an investigation they have been prosecuting for two years past into the nature of yellow fever and the best modes of combating it. The ma rine hospital service, which is in charge of the quarantine in the infected dis tlict, has been doing similar work, and Dr. 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 of culture for future observations.
 Opinion of the Medical World.
 The medical world at present is very generally of the opinion that the specific bacillus of yellow fever has not yet been identified. Recently the announcement was made by Sanarelli, an Italian scientist. that he had segre- gated the germ of yellow fever, and titlS ttdtlh Nas idtSi itNN pN o oNt- man bacteriologist after somewhat less exhaustive research.
 Surgeon sternberg's "Bacillus."
 Surgeon-General Sternberg, of the army, who is regarded as one of the foremost American bactcriologists, made close study of the subject, and isloated bacillus, which he did not claim was the specific germ of yellow fever. but one worthy of closer study, calling it for convenience the "Bacil Jus A." 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 investiga- tions, in which they set forth the state ment that so far as determined the bacillus of Sanarelli and the Bacillus A," of Sternberg were identical in their general form ard their effects on the lower animals, and that both seemed to be identical or very closely a'lied with the bacillus of hog cholera.
 Lesions Produced are Identical.
 The lesions produced by the three germs were the same, and samples CT the most expert scientists in the line O. agricultural chemistry and animal industry were pronounced to be the germ of hog cholera.
 Tbis seemed to leave the question open, but Doctors Reed and Carroll are continuing their researches with the intention of locating the active princi- pie iii yellow fever, whatever it is.
 Dr. Doty's Claims.
 Meantime, Dr. Doty, the health officer nt New York, claims to have confirmed Sanarelli's discovery, and is carrying on series of curative experiments with a serum for the destruction of the Sanarelli germ. The army medical officers say, however, that. no germ which can stand a temperature of 361 dc grees below zero can be the germ of yellow fever, which is known to cease its ravages on the appearance of frost. The Sanarelli germ was recently sub merged in frozen air and came out ready for business. The report of Doctors Wasdin and Geddings, 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.