Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-08-29
rs BACILLUS DEAD.
rppRosY CONGRESS MUST FACE
f,Cr OF ITS SPREADING.
Great Kinds Cry Out Against Negli-
gsnce-Living Death Stalks
Throughout Orient.


sufficiently to become subject Of In
terest?
do Tot know But what Is the
meaning of this7 | notice that Ger
many has induced Russia and Ron-
mania to Join with her in the decision
tbat for the future no passports be is
snad TO lepers. and have formed an in
ternational agreement to that effect.
since 1895 Prof. Albert S. Ashmead
If New York has fought for this pre-
caution.
PINT az the contrary, the Berlin con-
serence for reasons of their own, back
cd mn by the eminent authority OF Prof.
Hansen has opposed all anti -leper leg
islation looking to an international
agreement.
Hansen claimed that It was not nee
essory to isolate all lepers and point
ed with pride to his country's expert
ence with the disease under the imper-
feet law sought to be enacted against
the plague.
We know what that contention OF an
eminent scientist meant
We know what it has cost the world.
Hansen took good care not to tell the
world assembled at Berlin that ii was
In reality by shipping his lepers and
the children and grandchildren OF his
lepers TO the United States that he had
accomplished the publication of his
own few thousand square miles in Bre-
merhaven.
DR.. Poladouski wrote with reference
TO anti-leper legislation as follows In
a letter to Dr. Albert S. Ashmead of
New York he said; II must be glad if
! can insert somewhere IN the Berlin
papers even notice OF the very valu-
able letter you sent me- l am afraid
that the whole clique around Virchow
and Lsssar will adopt an attitude hos
tile to your well-meant efforts.
The following communication was
given out to the American Press asso-
cation.
each recipient was thoroughly ac-
ouRinted with all the discussions that
had gone before.
The notice to the American Press as
ISOLATION follows Il give you short
resume of the plan OF the leprosy con-
Cress. which you may publish as you
see fit You will probably find some
very interesting photographs Of leprosy
deformities. The following eminent
eprologists have already expressed
their willingness to join the forthcom-
ing leprosy congress: Dr. Herman
Hansen, the discoverer of the bacillus;
Bouffe Of Paris. who claimed to have
discovered the bacillus in human
blood, and who promises to use his
considerable influence to obtain an as
surance OF sympathy from President
7oubet; Prof. S. Kittasateo, of Japan,
whose name is almost as well known
as that of Hansen. and who has
charge at this moment OF Japanese
official investigation into leprosy and
its causes; Carras Quilla, llcentiate
Of Colombia, South America. who has
recently obtained an anti-leprosy SER
um by inoculating horses, asses and
goats with leper blood, and after
many days re-inoculating lepers with
blood drawn from the animals; Alva-
reg Of Honolulu. who is now engaged
in experimenting for the Hawaiian
board of health, trying to obtain an
anti-toxin by inoculating lepers with
the bacillus prodigiosus; Smith. Of
Tracadie, the inspector of leprosy in
Canada; Nunia Rett of st. Kits; Don
ovan, the superintendent of the leper
asylum, Spanish Town. Jamaica; Aze-
yedo Lima. the head Of the Hospital
dos lazaros, Rio Janeiro, Brazil: DR..
Harelburg, the eminent bacteriologist
OF Rio Janeiro; Jonathan Hutchinson,
OF London. who Is Of the opinion that
leprosy was brought into Europe by the
crusaders out of the fish-eating Orient.
and spread, in consequence Of the fish
eating necessitated by Christian fast
Ing, Neisser OF Breslau (the real dis
coverer of the bacillus. although he did
not record IT. Of leprosy cell and bacil-
ius staining fame: Blaschko of Berlin.
the great syphilographer Ehlers, "the
Copenha que, THE government expert of
one hundred and fifty-nine lepers, who
was sent on two perilous and disagree
able voyages to investigate the condi-
IONS OF leprosy in Iceland. and who an
tagonizes the theory of Leloir Of Lille,
france, and Zanbasco of Constantine
pie in their ideas as to an autochtho-
nous leprosy, which, they say. has APP
pearod in Brittany and + Ian d e re-
'france) now which they claim. is a
resurrection of the ancient leprosy
supposed to have died out in the FIJI
.eenth Century We will say in pass
las that Ehlers attributed these cases
30 France, not to a resurrection in the
ancient scene, but to re-inoculation
'i the fisher folk OF France by their
commerce with Icelanders Zanbaco. of
l1Istdntinople, who believes that Syr-
i-g0myelia and Acuhuhns of the ne
t.1es etc. are phases Of leprosy; Prof.
PETERSEN and Munich OF Petersburg and
MOSCOW, Besnier Of Paris the present
resident Of the International Derma-
...bslcal Congress; DR.. Morrow Of New
''. appointed committee cf the
american Genealogical Association:
LT j. g Kerr, Of Canton, China. who
pas spent twenty-three years studying
'e2r9-y in China; Goldschmidt. who
,elt tweuty-six years as a doctor OF
IoI'0gese lepers in Madeira Dr. Jup-
l-E 1i Robhen Island. South Africa
a's' opinion is that leprosy is cura.
..' by the incubation Of erysipelas
germs ] may add that Or Albert 5
tHhad o. New York. represents an
pea taat leprosy did not exist in
america before Columbus
A' Ashmead always stands ready &c
la4 American press any informa.