The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-10-06
YELLOW FEVER CURE.
italian Specialist Gets 100000 From
the Mexican Government for
Its Discovery.

NEW YORK. Oct. 5.-A special to the
Herald from the City Of Mexico says:
One hundred thousand dollars Is the
price which DR.. Angel BelllnZaghi, a
young Italian specialist, may win as
the discoverer Of a serum which cures
yellow fever.
Several years ago the Mexican gov
ernment made a standing offer of $780,
900 TO the discoverer of a remedy for
yellow fever, which every year IS epi-
demic in the lower gulf ports and on
the isthums OF Tehuantepec.
Several eminent specialists have made
experiments at the port of Vera Cruz
since the offer was made. Not until
this summer did any Of the serums
experimental with prove successful in
virulent cases. At last. however. the
remedy has been found.
The experiments conducted at Vera
Cruz we're under the auspices OF the
government board of health. The COM
mission appointed by the board to wit
ness the experiments has just report
ed favorably upon the result.
Part OF the big prize viii be paid
TO the doctor at once. He has been
asked to make further experiments in
various forms of the disease at Vera
(fuL anu IL lHGl Al- SuNGCScAuif it
viii win the entire prize.
In June last DIR. Bellinzaghi came to
the City of Mexico to obtain permits
sion of the government to make ex-
periments at Vera Cruz, where yellow
fever was then raging. While he was
awaiting the customary formalities to
be complied with. David fitzpatrick, an
American who mad come from the 18TH
mus, was taken i'll with yellow fever in
its most virulent form three or four
days after arriving in the city. He
was taken to the American hospital
here where his case was pronounced
hopeless. No case Of yellow fever
which developed in this altitude had
ever been saved.
A. W. Parsons. the physician in
charge of the hospital. gave permis-
sion to DR.. BellinZaghi to try his serum
upon the patient. DR.. Bellinzaghi is
tied the patient on the fourth day Of
his illness. after all hope for his life
had been given up. The patient had
the black vomit, temperature which
is considered fatal, his system was
thoroughly permeated with the disease,
and the action Of the kidneys was
entirely stopped. symptom which is
always considered fatal.
Dr. Bellinzaghi injected twenty grains
> of his serum on the first day he vis-
tied the patient. and succeeded in re-
tducing his temperature and pulse. On
the second day he injected thirty
grains. on the third day sixty grains
and on the fourth day eighty grains.
On the second day the vomit disap-
peared and on the fourth day the ac-
tion Of the kidneys was restored. Three
days later the patient was discharged
from the hospital.
This remarkable achievement hasten
ed the action of the government board
of health in granting permission to
Dr. BellinZaghi to make his expert
meats at Vera Cruz.
President DiaZ became personally
Interested in the matter ana sent for
the doctor. In an interview with the
president, DR., BellinZaghi explained his
serum and its theory fully and the
president took great interest in II.
A committee was appointed by the
government board of health which ac-
.cnInBanied DR.. Bellinzaghi to Vera
Cruz and afforded him every facility
to make his experiments. The serum
was tried on patients in the military
and San Sebastian hospitals and in S5
per cent of the cases II was successful.
The lewest mortality of cases Is 20 to
80 per cent.
The cases which Dr. BellinZaghi failed
20 save were these IN very advanced
stages Of rhe disease. In all the cases
in which injections Of the serum were
made in the first stage Of the disease.
the patient was conyalescent in from
one to four days and the recovery vas
complete.
In the cases taken in the second stage
OF the disease or. as the doctor ex-
pressed ii, after the second infection
when the system is permeated with
the toxin. the progress Of the disease (
was stopped in from four to eight days
and the patients recovered.
The third stage Of the disease Is
when the action of the kidneys is stop
ped. When the disease has reached
this stage death has hitherto been re-
garded as certain. DR.. Bellinzaghi has
saved several cases which had reached
this stage.
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