El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

/ lLG&SA65. Last June the 6ElLlSn M6QlCdl
! bureau stated that John Howard Nc
/ Fadden, the cotton magnate, who has
! given much money for the enTesUga-
] ton OF cancer. is about to turn his at
! tentiOn to the measles. It stated that
/ the research would be undertaken in
/ London, and I am tole that an appropri-
/ alton Of perhaps 100000 is TO be used
for this investigation. In the meantime
/ our government scientists by means Of
/ the monkeys. have made the discoveries
which the McFadden institute proposed
/ to make. and that at no additional cost
I to Uncle Sam
During my visit to the hygienic lab
I oratory today I had a long chat with
J DIT. John F. Anderson, the director, who
/ in connection with Dr. Joseph Gold
/ berger, his assistant, has been carry ing
I on the measles Investigations. DR.. An
dersOn is known for his remarkable
( success in research work. He has done
much in typhoid fever, pellagra and in
I fantile paralysis. He has made many
/ discoveries as to the effect of toxins
/ and anti-toxins, and as to the bacteria
found in milk and the bactni which
He tells me that It was some time
! before they were able to give the
measles to the monkeys The expert
7 ment had been attempted IN England
/ and elsewhere but had failed. At our
/ national laboratory, however, the blood
I or serum used to inoculate the mon
I keys was taken from the human patient
at just the time that che rash was COM
I ing out or was about to come out. It
I carried the disease. and from this and
other experiments We now know just
Z when measles are infectious.
The first monkeys were inoculated
June S OF last year. Ten days later they
I began to be feFerish, and an eruption
came out upon them, lust as II does on
/ a child The little animals developed all
the symptoms and FEATURES OF human
/ measles and the disease acted In the
same way. Now when the disease was
just at the right point certain of these
monkeys we're killed and their oloOu
was used to inOculate fresh monkeys
The monkeys so in0culated took the
measles, and third SET Of monkeys
inoculated with their blood took the
measles likewise.
Dangers to School Children.
From these and other cases Dr.. An
derson finds that the period or lnIec-
ffvftv from measles as far as the mon
kew is concerned begins about the
fourth day after he catches the olseasei
and that ii disappears as soon as tAs
eruption has passed away ana the ZEN
perature Of the patient becomes NO
nal It must be the same with humans
but as il is now. when child mas me
measles it is kept out OF scnooi tOt
something like three weeks. Inese IN
/ vestigations show that ~ or 10 Gays
time is all that is necessary, and II IS
probable that a less period would pc
safe The disease Is communicates from
man to man. OF rataer from child to
child for Il is to a large extent chilos
disease by means Of the secrelons
which come from the nose ana NOUN,
Certain monkeys which were lnOcul@teu
with a fluid mixed with these secTe-
lions took the measles, and It Is prooaDle
that the contagi0n comes largely from
such secretions. The sallVa ana otieI ~
secretions are mixed with the aus OF
the streets and thus taken into the sys-
TEN. For this reason children with the
measles should be warned against eN-
pectOratiOn.
monkey studies of InfantiIe Paralysis.
Among Others OF the recent investlga-
ton of the hygienic laboratory IS N
fantfle paralysis. This dread disease IS
like the measles IN Ilas y IsSea5ss
attacks little children It IS a dlseaSs
Of the spine, which paralyzes the child
either in part or in certain Of its mem
bers. and which often causes death. IN
Sweden out of 592 cases Of children I'M
der II Il died, and in Massachusetts In
62S cases the state board OF health
found that ] 6 percent of the-babies OF less
than one year failed 20 recover. among
the others. who got partially well, four
had one thigh and leg paralyzed. eisht
had two legs paralyzed and a number
had a leg. arm and other members
made dead, as It We're
Infantile paralysis is not a new dis
ease. Evidences of IL have been found
in an Egyptian mummy which is almost
5000 years old and 1t mas long existed
in Europe There have been a number
Of outbreaks of Il in various parts OF
the United States within the past few
wears Massachusetts had one in 1917,
1908 1909 and 1910, Michigan one IN
1907 and 1908, Pennsylvania one IN 1glU,
and Oregon, South Dakota and Nlr-
glnia were afflicted with it during that
same year Tt was in 1910 that II proke
ont here at washington resulting in
536 cases and about 16 deaths. The
Youngest case was only four months
old and the Oldest 81 years.
In studying this disease there nave
been many attempts to give II 70
guinea pigs, rabbits horses. sheep,
dogs cats, chickens. ducks and pigs.
They have all failed, but 1t has now
been discovered that it can be given to
the monkey, and also that monkey
which has had the disease once cannot
be given the disease again. 1t has been
found that a serum from the diseased
monkeys will arrest the progress OF the
disease after it, has developed, and
monkeys have been vaccinated Win
this and thus made immune II may pc
that this vaccination viii some day be
extended to children.
Tnfantile paralysis is found to come
from germ but this germ Is so s,1l1-
that Il viii go through stone inter
The scientists have macerated the SOL
nal cord of a monkey having the as
ease and have passed the water contain
ing this through such filter drop
OF the water which came from the III
ter was then Injected into another
monkey and it got infantile paralysis
It is also found that the secretions
From, the noses of the infected mon
KEYS are infectious and 1t is believed
ali the secreuOns of the nose ana
mouth are likewise so. This indicates
that the disease may be transmitted
from one person to another by direct
contact and that it is contagious.
PeIlagra Comes From Italy.
Another terrible disease which is
causing much excitement in certain
sections of the United States just now
is pellagra. This. in the words Of
surgeon general Wyman is VERT
able scourge in parts Of Europe 1t
is found in Florence. Italy, and Rou-
mania. and it occurs also in Spain and
upper Egypt. In certain parts of Italy
as many as so percent of the people
have the disease. and 10 percent of
these are mentally affected.
Pellagra has only recently come to
America It first broke out in the
southern states, but it is now found
as far north as Philadelphia. 1t is es-
timated that we have something like
%. 600 cases Of il. Once caught it lasts
a long time. 1t is frequently fatal,
hut there are instances in Italy where
people have been afflicted with il as
long as % years. Some suppose il to
come from a poison. which affects the
nervous system 1t frequently causes
insanity and in its various stages
IL.