The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-06-02

banner out ninety times in the United
States. There have been ninety of
these deadly invasions of this mos
quito-borne disease. DIR. Reed made
it certain that there will never be an
other of any serious proportions
Yellow fever will never call forth
the acts of heroism that it did in
Louisville. Memphis, New Orleans and
other cities in the old fever belt"
Reed was sent to Cuba In 1900 to
help clean up the island Death rates
in all diseases sank steadily under
the improved sanitation. Yellow fever
remained unchanged. Reed became
possessed of the notion that yellow
fever was carried from victim to
victim by the mosquito. Reed, Car
roll and Lazear offered themselves as
experimental subjects. Lazear died
and Reed came back TO the states in
weakened condition, and finally
passed away because of the low vital
ity that was left him after his battle
with the tropical disease
Doctors and surgeons are dying al
most every month in the year from
cancer. tuberculosis, feyers, blood
poisoning or some obscure ailment
that attacks when least expected.
Most of the research students of medi-
cine understand that they are taking
their lives literally in their hands
when they enter upon their studies.
Disease germs Turk in the air about
them during most of their waking
hours. They literally lie down and
get up with death, and their waking
moments are taken up with the han
ding and culturing of germs that may
at any time infect them. A single slip
| may prove fatal When a doctor
starts upon a career of research he
| understands just what his chances are
and accepts them.
1t is just year in this month since
Dr. Ricketts, died in the little Ameri
| can hospital in Mexico City. Ricketts,
had come into the City of Mexico
| from Washington for the purpose OF
studying the germs of typhoid fever
He was one of the first authorities I,
typhoid In this country, but his knowi
edge could not save him from the
clutches of the typhoid bacilli.
You can find men of this stripe in
the fever-ridden areas of the tropics
searching for the secret of the sleep
ing sickness. of the plague and the
malignant enteric fevers that sweer
thousands into their graves yearly
Armed with serums, Quinine, micro
scopes and testing tubes, they ven
| ture into the valleys of the Amazon
the Niger and the Ganges, hoping te
1 az -
human knowledge in the matter OF
diseases English and Russian sci
entists can be found in the hill coun
tries on the Tibetan provinces makins
close and careful studies of goitre ant
the nameless diseases that slay thu
Tibetan in his smoky hut American
doctors are facing death, and. worse
in the Philippines. making careful in
vestigations of the weird affection!
that have killed the little brown
brother" for generations.
There are laboratories In Americ,
that hold more Of the concentrated es
sence of death than all the nitro
glycerin works that are scattered
over the country. There are room,
in many of the modern institution,
that make a specially of investigation
where every test tube holds enough
of sudden death to decimato a city
Tetanus. the germs of blood poison
meningitis and cultures of diphtheri,
and the black plague are ranged upol
the shelves. Careful scientists who's,
white aprons and rubber-gloved hand
brush extinction at every move, watcl
the growth and the life history O
these assassins, that the race at larx
may profit by their watching.