The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-10-12

New York, Oct. Ga special to the
Herald from the City of Mexico says:
One hundred thousand dollars is
the prize which DR.. Angel Bellinzaghi,
a young Italian specialist, may win
as the discoverer of a serum which
cures yellow fever.
The Remedy Has Been Found.
Several years ago the Mexican gov
eminent made a standing offer of
100000 to the discOverer of a remedy
for yellow fever, which every year is
epidemic in the lower gulf ports and
on the isthmus 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 Sc
runs experimental with prove sue
cessful in virulent cases. At last,
however, the remedy has been found.
The experiments conducted at Vera
Cruz were under the auspices of the
government board of health. The
commission appointed by the board
to witness the experiments has just
reported favorably upon their result.
Part OF the Big Prize.
Part of the big prize will be paid
to the doctor at once. He has been
asked to make further experiments
in various forms of the disease at
Vera Cruz, and if they are successful
he will win the entire prize.
In June last DIR. Bellinzaghi came
to the City of Mexico to obtain per-
mission from the government to make
experiments at Vera Cruz, where the
yellow fever was then raging.
A Crucial Test.
While DR.. Bellinzaghi was await
ing the customary formalities to be
complied with, David Fitzpatrick an
American, who had come from the
Isthmus, 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 hos.
pital, where his case was pronounced |
hopeless. No case of yellow fever
which had developed in this altitude,
having been contracted in a lower |
altitude, had ever been saved. DR.. A |
w. Parsons, the physician in charge |
of the hospital, gave permission to
DIR. Beliinzaghi to try his serum. DR.. |
Bellinzaghi visited the patient on the |
fourth day of his illness, after all |
hope for his life had been given up.
Patient Had Black VOmtt.
The patient had the black vomit, |
a temperature which is considered ia |
tai, his system was thoroughly per- |
meated with the disease, and the ac-
ton of the kidneys was entirely |
stopped, a symptom which is always |
considered fatal.
DR.. Bellinzaghi injected 20 grains of |
his serum on the first day he visited
the patient, and succeeded in reduc-
ing his temperature and pulse. On
the second day he injected 30 grains,
on the third day go grains, and on the |
fourth day so grains.
Gratifying Success.
On the. second day the vomit dis
and on the fourth day the
action of the kidneys was restored.
Three days later the patient was dis
from the hospital.
This remarkable achievement hast
tened the action of the government
board of health in granting permits
sion to DIR. Bellinzaghi to make his |
db OIuZ.
Government Commission.
A commission was appointed by |
the government board of health, |
which accompanied DR.. Bellinzaghi to
Vera Cruz and afforded him every IA
cility to make his experiments. The
serum was tried on patients in the
military and San Sebastian hospitals, |
and in SIS per cent of the cases it was
successful. The usual mortality in
yellow fever cases is so to so per cent,
Where Failure Occurred.
All the cases which DR.. Bellinzaghi
failed to save were those in very adj
vanced stages of the disease. In ali
the cases in which injections of the
serum was made in the first stage OF
the disease the patient was conva-
descent in from one to four days, and
the recovery was complete.
In the Second Stage.
In the cases taken in the second
stage of the disease, or, as the doctor
it, after the second injec-
ton, when the system is permeated
with the toxin, the progress of the
disease was stopped in from four to
eight days and the patient recovered.
Saved Several Desperate Cases.
The third stage of the disease is
when the action of the kidneys is
stopped. When the disease has
deached this stage; death has hith-
erto been regarded as certain. DR..
Bellinzaghi saved several cases which
had reached this STAGE