Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-11
YELLOW FEVER'S MASTER
The Wonderful Discovery of Dr..
Angel Bellinzaghi, the Young
Italian Specialist.
SERUM THAT cOHQUERs YELLOW FEVER.
By Its Successful Demonstration In
Mexico the Doctor Has Becom
Entitled to the Standing Reward
of 100000 offered by the Mexican
government,

Entitled to the Reward
of 100000 offered by the Mexican
Government.
New York, Oct. "a special 10 the
Herald from the City of Mexico says:
One hundred thousand dollars is
the prize which DIR. Angel B~ellinzaghi,
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 d~iscoverer of a remedy
for yellow fever, which every yea 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 g make further experiments
in various forms of the disease at
Vera Cruz, and if they are successful
he will win the entire prize.
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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 DIR. B~ellinzaghi was await
ing the customary formalities to be
complied with, David Fitzpatrick an
American, who had come from the
Jsthmus, was taken ill with yellow
fever in it's 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 eyer been saved. DIR. A.
". Parsons, the physician in charge
of the hospital, gave permission to
DR.. Bellinzaghi to try his serum. DIR.
Beilinzaghi visited the patient on the
fourth day of his illness, after all
hope for his life had been given up.
Patient Had Black VOm.t.
The patient had the black vomit,
a temperature which is considered IA
tai, his system was thoroughly per-
meated with the disease, and h ac-
ton of the kidneys was entirely
stopped, a symptom which is always
considered fatal.
DIR. B~ellinzaghi 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 80 grains,
on the third day 60 grains, and on the
fourth day so grains.
Gratifying Success.
On the second day the vomit dis
appeared, and on the fourth day the
action of the kidneys was restored.
Three days later the patient was dis
charged from the hospital.
This remarkable achievement hast
tened the action of the government
board of health in granting permits
sion to DR.. Bellinzaghi to make his
experiments at Vera Cruz.
A 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 IS 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-
1escent 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
expresses it, after the second iniec-
ton, when the system is permeated
with the toxin, the progress of the
disease was stopped in from tour 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. DIR.
Bellinzaghi saved several cases which
had reachAS this stage.