Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-06-14


banner out ninety times in the United
States There have been ninety Of
these deadly invasions of this mos
quito-borne disease. DR.. Reed made
II 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 81 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 battl.
with the tropical disease.
Doctors and surgeons are diving al.
most every month in the year from
poisoning or some obscure ailment
mat attacks when least expected.
Most OF the research students of medi.
cine understand that they are taking
their lives literally I'm their hands
when they enter upon their studies
Disease germs Turk i'm 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 brn.
ding and culturing Of germs that NAV
at any time infect them. A single sIin
may prove fatal When n 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
DIR. 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
lie was one Of the first authorities
typhoid In this country, but his knowI-
edge could not save him from the
clutches of the typhoid bacllu
You can find men OF this stripe I'm
the feVer-ridden areas Of .ho tropics
searching for the secret OF the sleep.
Ing sickness. of the plague and the
malignant enteric fevers that aveen
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 Gauges. hoplpg To
add something to the sum total or
human knowledge I'm the matter NJ
diseases. English and Russian sci.
entists can be found in the Hill conn.
tries on the Tibetan provinces making
close and careful studies Of RoItre and
the nameless diseases that s1av tba
Itbetan in his smoky hut Americ,r
doctors are facing death, and worse
in the Philippines making careful In.
designations Of the weird affections
mat nave killed the little brown
brother for generations.
There are laboratories IN America
that hold more OF tho concentrated o..
sence Of death than all the nitro.
glycerin works that are scattered
over the country. There are rooms
In many Of the modern institutions
that make specially OF Investigation
where every test tube holds enough
Of sudden death TO decimate a city
Tetanus, the germs OF blood poison
meningitis and cultures Of diphtheria
and the black plague are ranged upon
the shelves. Careful scientists whose
white aprons and ruDber-gloved hands
brush extinction at every move watct
the growth and the life history OF
these assassins, that the race at larR,
may profit By their watching.