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DOCTORS DIFFER
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ing. was delirious and had buboes in
the right groin and rapid pulse She
had died two hours after ne had seen
the case.
Il went over with the Chinese doctor
and found man lying down. He
| looked perfectly well-nO anxiety in his
was 1911. his pulse 100 TO $50. He had
| bubo in his right groin; his abdo-
men was tense. He died at o'clock
| in the morning last Tuesday. His
treatment had been quinine. | asked
| DR.. Soon to look around and see if he
could find any more cases. In the eve
ming he reported another case within
a stones throw of the first case, and
| that the man had died. / notified Mr..
| Cooper and Drs. Day and Hoffman. The
point which struck us was the number
of people dying about there affected
with bubO."
| DR.. Raymond inquired whether there
was a history of the man having eaten
| any canned goods or fish. DR.. Herbert
| replied that ne knew of no such his
| tory.
Did you find any wounds. or exam
inc his feet?" was asked.
NO. | found no wounds; he was per-
fectly clean"
Had he ever had bubo before?"
We'll, in the postmortem, there were
no hard inguinal glands.
DIR. HOFFMAN's WORK.
DR.. Hoffman was called upon to
|, state his observations of the cases he
had examined in the body or bacteria
logically.
Did you make any cultures?" was
} inquired.
Eyes: | made cultures especially
} from the glands of the first patient.
The bacilli of plague were the same as
those which were described in Vienna.
} Did you inoculate any Guinea
pigs?" inquired DR.. Cooper.
"Yes. | did; one rabbit and one rat
} also. | expect the death of the pig very
soon and the others in very short
, time
When was the Guinea pig inocu-
lated?"
, The same day of the examination.
How long should it take TO bring
about their deaths?"
Between three and four dayS-that
|, 4
So much formalin had been poured over
the body that the fluids were affected.
External application of formalin
, would kill the bacilli?"
Yes. the formalin did kill the
germs"
, DR.. Raymond stated he had read in
the paper where DR.. Hoffman had
made an incision in the inguinal gland,
} and asked if it was suppurated.
No" replied DR.. Hoffman.
You have made a positive diagno-
sis?" inquired DR.. Raymond.
Yes. | think. and | am positive, we
J had a case of plague in this China
man."
DR.. Cooper: Are there any other
! bacilli which resemble the bacilli o.
J lplague?"
i We'll, only the bacilli which woult
affect animals-not human beings"
Should not the inoculated animal
have died by this time?"
Yes, but it may be possible tina
lsome of the diSinfectants may have re
manned on the instruments and thu
have killed the bacilli. | have wv
lcultures on gelatine. | have no doub
in saying that these bacilli are the ba
cilli of the plague, asserted Or. Hon
man.
"Then you have decided absolutel
THAT it is the plague, even without prov
ing it interchangeable asked ID
Cooper.
Yes. | am sure of it. | think as ia
as we can tell by micrOscopical exam
nation with the buboes, | declare thes
cases are the plague. | am perfect
convinced of it, | guess we can b
81 he o,.1 Of
Minister Cooper went ahead as soon a
he heard of the very first case. neN
er intended to discover the bacilli {
l. plague. but bacilli which resemble tn
bacilli of plague
Dr. Day: What was the appearanC
OF the right inguinal gland of tn
Chinaman, DR.. Hoffman,"
Il have never seen any postmorten
which showed such characteristics
in the Chinaman. The gland We
swollen. | have never seen anythln
like il before in my life"
:, MAJOR WOOD SPEAKS.
Y Major Wood was of the belief tn;
Y the Board of Health was to be congra
u ulated for the manner in which it toe
hold of the suspicious disease. and ID
Hoffman he considered was to be col
graduated for the research he he
made in all the suspected cases, ar
for the results he had obtained.
Honolulu" said he, is to be col
graduated, that If mistake has bee
made. it has been made on the rigl
side. If you had bubonic plague, ar
il would seem that you have acquire
Ia the mastery of it. you have been II
gamer in every way. AS to the reli
bility of the results obtained by bact
biological work. | think there can