The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-03-27


development, as witness the fact that
it passes through a layer of unglazed
porcelain. BY analogy we believe that
it is an animal parasite, owing to the
similarity of it's mode of transmission
to that in malaria by a single species
of mosquito. We can only hope that
with more powerful microscopes and
more refined methods of staining it
may be demonstrable in the future.
"A heavy price has been paid for
our knowledge of yellow fever. DR..
LAGER died of yellow fever during the
early part of the work of the Army
Commission. DR.. Reeds health was
shattered and he died a few years
after his return to Washington. The
remaining American member of the
commission, Dr+ Carol, died last year,
never having fully recovered his health
after an attack of yellow fever which
he contracted during the work of the
commission. A few years ago the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
sent two Investigators to Para. in
Brazil, to study the disease, and as
has often occurred in the work of this
institution, which devotes it's attention
particularly to infectious diseases Of
the tropics only one of their men re-
turned. A year or so later a German
bacteriologist died of yellow fever
while investigating the disease in
Brazil. 1t is to hoped that the full
price has been paid and that hereafter.
with our increased knowledge of the
disease no more useful lives will have
to be sacrificed to its study.
Now for the bright side of the pic
ture What has our new knowledge of
yellow fever. purchased at such
price, done for US? First of all Cuba
has been practically freed from the
disease. This means, not alone that
hundred of lives are saved annually
in that island, but that Cuba is no
longer menace to our South Atlantic
and Gulf Seaboard as a place of origin
of destructive epidemics of yellow
fever. 1t has made possible the work
of digging the Panama Canal. 1t has
put the task of fighting epidemics of
the disease and the matter of maritime
quarantine against the disease on a
firm basis. Surely the price has not
been too heavy!
TN conclusion we may profitable
sum up the various ways in which the
increased knowledge of infectious
diseases which has been gained in the |
last fifty years has effected our life |
This can be put under three heads, |
namely,
First, prompt recognition of the ma
-ure of given case of sickness.
Second, the use of artificially pro-
luced products to assist the patient in
'esisting the attack or to make him /
immune to the disease.
Third, improved community SANTA
ion which prevents the occurrence of
Infectious disease.
I'm short, we have exact knowledge
bout disease and in the ideal ccm-
nunity, we use this knowledge to pre-
ent disease, to recognize its true ma
ure, when it occurs. and to assist the
atient to recover from it when il be-
ONES an actually. BY this exact
we save a great deal Of I'M
ecessary effort. For example, we no
niger fight plague blindly, but as DR..
urrie will tell you in the next lecture ;
this course we follow out certain {
efnite procedures which we know will !
ield results" I
At the conclusion of the lecture i
Judge Ballou announced that in two :
-eeks DR.. Currie would lecture on '
Plague" and that two weeks later G
IT. Sinclair would deliver lecture on
Cholera" II