The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-10-07
YELLOW FEVER CURE?
,,-vtc,N GOVERNMENT AWARDS A
LARGE PRIZE.

80. successful In Eighty-Five
a. cent of the Cases, and Saves
IN same which Were Declared
hopeless.
49,. ~ Mexico Correspondence OF the
New York Herald.
1-. hundred thousand dollars Is the
. which Or. Angel Bellinzaghl.
.,g Italian specialist may win as the
s,.seversr Of a serum which cures yell
ou fever.
several years ago the Mexican govern
.-.-. made a standing offer OF 10000 to
49,. Alseoyerer o6 remedy for yellow
Ter which every year is epidemic in the
,...r f;uf ports and on the Isthmus OF
Tshuanteoeg
s.rsral eminent specialists have made
.,o.-,rnents az the port OF Vera Cruz since
b.. oasr was made. Not until this sum
,.r 5id any of the serums experimental
,.. provs successful IN virulent cases.
4, ,nst however the remedy has been
hart
The experiments conducted AZ Vera Cruz
,.-s under the auspices OF the govern
mont Board or Health The commission
.p,5lutea by the board to witness the ex-
,.-menta has Just reported favorsbly
u1or their result.
Part OF the big prize will be paid 10
80 doctor at once. lie has been asked 10
make further experiments in various
ss-ns Of tho disease at Vera Cruz, and
II thev are successful Ire will win the
entire prize
saves n Hopeless Case.
u, r,ir.e last DIT. BeHinzagfi came 20 the
CIV OF Mexico 90 obtain permisslnn from
~ government TO make experiments az
v-ra cruz. wherc the yellow fever was
.,..r raging. While Dr. BeHinzaghi was
awaiting the customary formalities TO be
,,-,ple8 With David Fitzpatrick, an
American. VINO had como from tho 18th
r-,s WINS ,aken 80 with yellow fever ~
~ meet y@ru.ent form threa OF four days
after arriving in the city. He was taken
i1 fha American hosrttal where mis- case
was pronounced hopeless. No case OF
yellow fever which had developed In this
e-r1ae. having been contracted in
lower ahntude. had ever been saved.
ur A. W. Parsons. the physician in
cra-re 81 the hospital gave permission
20 pr BellinzaEhf 10 try his serum upon
The patient. DIT. Beninzaghi visited the
rafleut on the fourth DAY Of his Illness.
after al hope for his life had been given
up The natient had the black vomii,
temperature which Is considered fatal.
~ system WAS thoroughly permeated with
rh" d.sease and the action OF the kidneys
WIS entirely stopped a symptom which
~ always considered fatal.
President Dias Interested.
pr Benuzashi Injected twenty grains
NJ his serum on the FIRST day he visited
the patient and succeeded In reducing his
temperature and pulse. on the second day
Do injected thirty grains on the third day
sixty grains and on the fourth day eighty
grains.
on the second day the vomit disappear
el and on the fourth day the action OF
tHe kidneys was restored Three days
later the patient was discharged from the
hospital.
This remarkable achievement. which
was cahled 10 the Herald exclusively az
'Ha time. fastened the action OF the gov
eminent Board OF Health In granting per-
mission 90 Or. Bellinzaghi 10 make his
apartments at Vera Cruz.
President Dinz became personally inter
esfed IN the matter aud sent for the doc
tor In an interview with the President.
n- Beliinzaghi explained his serum and
rs theory fully and the President took
great interest In u.
eminent Board Of Health. which accom-
rauled Dr Belunzaghi 10 Vera Cruz and
afforded him every facility 10 make his
apartments. The serum was tried on pa
tents In che military and San Sebastion
fospitals. and IN So per cent % she cases
s. was successful The usual mortality IN
Yellow fever cases Is 70 20 50 per cent.
saved Even in Last StnEe.
an the cases which Dr Belinzaghi
failed to save were those IN very advanc-
81 stages Of the diseass IN oil the cases
in which injections Of the serum were
made IN the first stages OF the disease the
patient was co6valescent IN from one 20
four days and the recovery was complete.
ln the cases taken in the second stage
n tho disease. or. as the doctor expresses
o. after the second injection. when the
t'stem Is permeated with the toxin. the
progress Of the disease was stopped Ia
rom four TO eight days and the patients
r..ovcred.
The third stage Of the disease Is when
he action % the kidneys IL stopped
When the disease has reached this stage
dsath had hitherto been regarded a. GER
unn Dr Beihuzaghi saved several cases
which had reached this stage
IN explaining the theory OF his discov-
e'. ur BelinzaRhi says:
Tho sero-iherapeutic treatment ~ dis
elf' originated In the theory Of immunity
from rs own property from bacteria. Bio
iog 30 law teaches that each microbe
ff'iur"s fen ita cultivation substances ca
p7ole ~ opposing It's development or neil
u'i1irg lbs action. Roux. In the Buda
Iff nongrcss. thus explains the forma-
ton OF auti-toNius: The anti-toXln anti
in on hicillus) is derived from tho toxin
'po'son hacllus) by a transformation in
organism. This Is proved by the sim
hHtr Of the toxin and antl-toxin.'
orsfore, the quantity Of anti-toxiu In
ono blood has to be "a proportion to the
latoduced toxin.
Action of the serum.
Ih" toxin works as an excitant upon
W" et which secrets the auii-toxin That
'''' .toNin IS a cellular product was prov
hF klempercr. who found that the yolk
OF % egg immuuizes its antl-toXin. where
7- me white does not The theory OF n
'."" fever serum Is that OF immuniza-
'n 'u the cell hy anti-toxin and the ex-
property Of the phagocytes two
WhiHh enter simultaneously into
i". i'r The defense Of the organism.
DO nay experiments in Vera Cruz
'..iHfnred 90 cXomine tho action OF the
'n upon The black vomit and other
Aa'' Phenomena. The black vomit is
t''"oW'uant symptom OF the disease.
'' =" he cmstic properties secrcted by
specific bacillus. The FIRST vomlts IN
VITO tH FTTeu ara nfffarrsfarv affarwnVN