The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-11
Prof. Koch, The Great German
Scientist, so Declares.
The DAY OF M0QUlTOES GONE.
Many GsrIIIas, OTang-Ouiangs AMI Great
Apes Sacrificed IN Making Necessary
Experiments In DuCh East Indies.

Tacoma, Wash, Oct 1l-If the re-
ports brought here by passengers from
the Orient be true, good-by TO malaria
mosquitoes have had their day and.
more important, il mosquitoes and ma
larla can be exterminated, immense
tracts of the most fertile lands on the
globe now empty of inhabitants, will
be made TO support teeming popula-
tions.
Professor Koch. the great German bac-
terioogist, has reached Hong Kong on
his return 10 Berlin For more than a
year the eminent scientist has been test
ing, In the Dutch East Indies, and in the
German colonies OF East Africa. cure
for malaria, OF which so much has been
written, but which was only partly sue
cessful before Professor Koch's depar-
ture from Germany.
The professor now announces that his
cure Is positive. and besides, that every
malaral district can be absolutely
purged OF the scourge To attain this re-
sult the professor has sacrificed the
health and better feelings of many goril-
las, orang-outangs ana great apes But
the contemporary OF these monkeys, the
descendant OF their ancestors, man, will
be vastly benefited.
GREAT CURE IN NEW GUINEA.
Thus, at Stephansort. New Guinea.
Professor Koch succeeded I'm reducing
malaria to a. minimum during the sea-
son of the year when II IS usually most
prevalent, and when the conditions were
most unfavorable.
If that can be done I'm New Guinea,
Professor Koch says. II can be done i'm
the deadlest spot on earth-the Roman
campagna-wScre no man can stay on
summer night without contracting ma
lsria. Men come down from the hills I'm
spring and plant crops on the csmpagna,
but when they return in autumn To har-
west them thpy cOUTTTCr maTarIa, Which
kills them OFF by dozens
During his stay on the island OF Java,
Professor Koch captured several large
gorllas. some OF which already suffered
vita malaria and some he inocuated
with the disease by letting mosquitoes
bite them.
Professor Koch kept the animals Sc
curely chained 10 trees and fed them
well. When he actually experimental on
them they were bound by chains and big
ropes TO heavy plank tables.
QUININE GIVEN TO GoRILLAs.
Professor Koch gave the gorillss hypo-
dermic injections of his virus. and i'm their
food he mixed medicine which contain
ed nifty per cent. Of quinine The doses
which were much larger than those In
tended for human beings. produced emil
nently satisfactory results
no hat 10
know more about the cure OF malaria
than the most learned men. and that I'm
Java grow herbs that are natural cures
for the disease.
For awhile Professor Koch established
himself i'm highly malarial district about
POO miles from Batavia, Java's capital.
The great forest near by contained hum
dreds of orangs which the Javanese
caught and sold to the professor for a
very little money.
outside his tent the professor had fifty
OF these orangs chained to trees. They
were well fed and kindly treated except
when scientific necessity demanded eX-
periments on them.
one OF these was a highly intelligent
and entertaining orang, a really lovabe
ape, which the professor named Savaja.
oRANG CURES HIMSELF.
The scientist tied up Savaja and caused
him TO be bitten freely by mosquitoes
lie then kept the ape shut up in the
house. SO that he could not reach any OF
the natural remedies. Within three days
the orang had developed a severe attack
OF maarial fever. The professor then
tied him down to the operating table and
took a specimen friS-bfUUt- ny means
of a Potin's aspirator. Upon analysis
81 10 ha al
the blood of a man suffering from mala-
ria.
Savaja wassthen tied by long chain to
a tree I'm the forest. Here i'm the course
of week he became thoroughly cured
OF his fever.The remedy must have been
somewhere around.
After an absence OF more than year
Professor Koch will soon depart for Ber-
lin. where he will present his official re-
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