The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-13

to win the esteem and affection o. !lls
praeceptor, the llustrous and genial DIT.
;yyclch. Of Johns Hopkins UniVersl ty- q
year later Ito wa s ordered to Washing son
to estab lIsh the modest Coaching labora-
tory Of the then recently established army
medical school, Fl Is work III this labora-
tory covered a wide field Of research. and
was of much scientific value, bur 1t can
not be. touched on to day except perhaps
to mention the great and laporlous -.
yestigatlon of the camp epidemic 81
typhoid fever during the Spanish war oY
the board Of which lie was pres ldent.
Congress last year: appropriated SIS. 900 for
thu, publication OF tho voluminous report
OF this board a. work upon which the
only surviving member, DR.. Victor 9.
Vaughan, OF Ann Harbor University, u
now engaged.
DIR. REED IN CUBA.
III Juno Of 1900 DR.. Reed came TO Cuba
1T the head OF n commission Tor tne
study OF yellow fever; to attack IN It's
favorlte stronghold that mysterious ana
deadly disease which. since the days OF
Columbus, had scourgcd tho western
shores of the Atlantic from Philadelphia
10 the Amazon. No one who has not read
the long catalogue OF it's deyastatlons
spread through the 1880 pages OF La
Roche 3 monumental work can appreciate
how many thousand OF lives. what oc'aans
Of tears. what millions Of money Tins
plague has cost humanity. 1t was at
that time prevalent, as usual, N havana
and in the nclghboring town Or Quema-
dos where our gallant Virginia genera !.
T,Itzhugh Lee had the headquarters OF
hia military department, and ], who hap
rened to be chief surgeon on his staff,
was lying sick OF IT,. So I think That, IN
the visit which Reed promptly paid me,
he saw his first case OF the disease wlth
which his fame, will always be assoc
cInted,
AZ lie often remarked tllc progress OF
nror,ern medicine had stopped at this
singular disease, and no single fact WAS
known to us which was not to be found
in the pages of In Roche fifty wears age
or course, the theories OF It's cnusntlon
ana manner OF spread We're, infinite W
number, and more than one observer
had claimed that the 1tn Of the ,nosq w"
was instrumental IN It's propagntlon. ~
Carlos Finlay of IInvnnn, the most
prominent advocate of this theory, had
even CORRECTLY fixed tllpon IN speclnl
variety of mosquito, Eut scientific medi-
cine takes no note of improved tAcories
and Justly gives the palm OF discovery
to the demonstration or scleht'tlo lacls
and not TO the proclaln1sr OF theories,
cannot go into the cAls es when len ~.
IceC'S lNVeStlSHllpllS INV lh.S PNNA' 80
ccpt to say that Dr. lTinlays publications
did not Inf lucnce him. but more than any,
ching elso tho observations OF another
Virginia doctor. Henry r. Carter turned
his mind In this direction. It was evil
dent TINT as man was the only creature
known to be susceptible to yellow fever
experiments would have to be made or
human beings. and the board determined
ia make the first trial on the persons 81
its own members, lgsE
SACRIFICE 70 SCIENCE
DR.. James Carroll. OF the army, WHO
is here to-day was tho first experimental
case, and suffered q very severe attack.
which carried him Into the Very shadow
cf tho gates OF death, am glad TO DO
ehle to bear witness to nm net Of self
devotion as gallant as the leading OF
fororn hope, and far more productive os
good to others. regret TO add that II has
not, however, been productive Of any pro-
motion or reward for him. The third Amer
lean member Of the commission, the
Young and gifted Iea1enr, died, nobly
sacrificing to this work q life fun OF
promise of scientific achievement The
great secret was now discovered, but
more experiments vexs. aaassAsa 70 cleaS.