Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-11-14

martyr does not seem to be such a
paying proposition as being a con-
queror. theoretically it ought to be
but the advocates of international
peace and the boards that bestow
medals for heroism and prizes foI
scientific achievement, haven't been
able to bring about that consumma-
| tion as yet. The death the other day of
! DIR. James Carroll, last survivor of the
little group who down in Cuba in 1900
let themselves be poisoned, in the in
terest of science and humanity, by yell
! low fever laden mosquitoes has en-
! phasized once more the inadequacy of
the honors that are paid by this coun-
, try to its heroes of peace
! Despite all the nice things that are
being said, and the little pensions that
are being paid to the widows nothing
has been brought forward to indicate
that DR.. Carroll and Dr. Walter Reed
the near future to be voted public
monuments by congress for their great
victory gained in the warfare human
kind is waging against the all but I'M
conquerable forces of disease and
death. The streets of this imperial
city are full of military heroes astride
of impossibly praneing steeds and of
politicians of bygone years standing
with their right hands thrust males
tically beneath the lapels of metallic
frock coats fashionable in other ages.
Like Berlin whose celebrated Sieges.
Alec, or Hero Row long since was
occupied to overlooking, SO that a new
hero annex is in order, Washington
also contains more statues than the
district commission knows what to do
with. Some say that the Potomac
would be good place for many OF
them; though others object that Wash.
ington has aspirations as a seaport
and that it would be pity to clog the
channel
This is great country for honoring
rightly enough. of course-those who
have fought, bled and died pro patria
on the field of glory. Amongst the
departed venerables with military rep
utations few folk who cherish the
memory of one of the noblest deeds
ever performed by men trust that
some day there will be found in Wash.
ington a place for an adequate mem.
orial to DR.. Carroll and his associates
The men concerned in the great sac
rifice at Havana have now passed on
DR.. Reed Is dead: DR.. Lazear died i'm.
mediately from the disease: DR.. Mey-
ers of Liverpool, British investigator
lots his life at the time. And now death
has removed DR.. Carroll, on whose per
son was given the first positive dem
onstration that the mosquito conveys
the infective agent of yellow fever and
who lowered for days between life and
death to recover finally and return to
TO Washington, where he succeeded
Major Reed in the chair of bacterial.
ogy and pathology in George Washing.
ton University.
Ii is doubtful If the vital Importance
of the discovery confirmed by these
daring investigators has yet been pop
ularly appreciated. 1t is not simply
that method has been provided for
stamping out yellow fever and thereby
saving the lives of millions who live
in tropical conditions: the whole range
of possibilities of good health in the
tropics has been immensely extended.
1t has at last become understood that
many evils which used to be attributed
m witNhcraft ara in raot;tx l,,., p, tha
buzzing insects that swarm in a humid
and spperheated cline. On account of
the fear Of diseases, for example, and
particularly of yellow fever, most peo-
pie in tropical America still sleep with,
their windows closed. For that reasonI
tuberculosis ravages Spanish-AmericanI
countries to an incredible and entirely
unnecessary extent. Now that il has
been ascertained that there is no
spirit OF destruction in the evening"
breeze screens can be arranged to-
keep out the mosquitoes; the fresh
air does all the rest
The foregoing is of course only one
of the benefcent results of the work
of the early autumn of 1900 when Doc.
tors Carroll and Lazear agreed to-
lead the forlorn hope in contest then
being waged against one of the most
malignant of diseases. A paper on vel.
low fever Investigations by Dr. A. II.
Donally instructor in bacteriology and
pathology at George Washington Uni
versity has just been published in this
autumn's bulletin devoted to the work
OF the department Of medicine. This
tells in detail the story OF the events
beginning August %. 1900, when Dr.
Carroll barred his arm in the labora.
tory and allowed a fellow physician to
apply 1t to a mosquito which had
twelve days before bitten a severe case
OF yellow fever on the second day Of
the disease and had thereafter bitten
three other cases at intervals of SIX.