The evening times., 1900-09-24

paiIy affect the life of the bacillus They
are light, heat, and moisture. The plague
germ stands quick drying badly. 1t cannot
live in sunshine and high temperatures
are fatal to it. The degrees of it's sensi-
bility TO these factors are stiu matters OF
experimentation. In the climate of India
the German Plague Commission found that
the germ lost its power Of Injection within
eight days In Germany it was still active
after twenty-eight days. DR.. Rosenau of
the United States Marine Hospital Ser
vice made some interesting experiments
in San Francisco, showing that the germ
/ thrived variously in crash. splinters of
pine wood, paper, silk, wool. and other
substances, but succumbed invariably TO
rapid drying. Batzareff. a Russian ply
s1cian, found that specimens kept out of
the sunlight in his laboratory after three
and half months had still life enough to
kill animals
Studying the Germ.
What it is hoped TO learn in the expert
ments in New York no one. OF course. can
say. The effect of various climatic coudi-
tions on the germ and on the animals inoc-
uiated viii be one of the directions in
which the attention of the experimenters
viii be turned. And then viii be the
method OF Infection. II is considered well
! established that fleas and mosquitoes can
!
Simon, French physician shut up in
sects which had been in contact with in
Tected persons in boxes in which were per-
tectly healthy rats. The rats invariabl
contracted the disease
The necessity for the most elaborate
precautions in studying the plague germ
and the need. should such study be rem
dered imperative by an outbreak in this
city, for such a laboratory as the health
board is about to erect are shown in many
instances of infection in Europe The
study OF the plague germ carries with it
glory in few instances and danger in all
In 1897 Austria sent a scientific expedi-
ton TO Bombay TO study the bubonic pest
DR.. Herman Muller. who headed it, brought
back specimens of the germ for microscop-
zeal examination and experiment in the
Anatomo PathOlogic Institute at Vienna
For nearly year he studied the disease
there Experimenting on small animals
One day the man who had care OF the in
oculated animals fell ill., apparently OF in
| tiuenza, complicated with pneumonia No
body recognized the bubonic plague in his
! illness, yet ii was the plague in its most
deadly form-the pneumonia. Three daya
/ afterward the MN died. Before death oc-
CURED DR.. Muller had recognized the real
nature of the disease. He personally at
I, tended the patient and took every precau-
ton 10 prevent infection but he had prob
ably already become infected. On the
third day after the patients death he hir..,
self was attacked He recognized the
plague symptoms and shut himself up in
| his room to die alone, refusing adInittance
10 those who would have attended him
While he still had strength he gave direc-
tions that his body should be burned Two
| days after ne was attacked he died A
priest, standing before his open window.
gave him absolu ion. His body was Gre
mated. Two nurses and sister of chari-
" were stricken down with the disease
before the outbreak OF the plague in Vien-
ma was checked. Ore of the nurses died