The chronicle=news., 1913-04-05
lEPER IS SHOWN
MAGNIFED GERMS

Salt Lake City. Utah. April A.
Under his own eye. looking through .
the curved lenses OF II powerful MI
crOscope in the office OF the Ctiy
Health Commissioner yesterday az
icrnoon. r.. II. Grahie. lep"r. saw col
onIes OF the barilll Ot the sians;erNls
disease with which he Is afflicted.
He studied III" tsrrlbl" germ des-
tined Ia banish him from society aud
ultimately to claim his HE with In
tense interest.
DIR. Hard!c X. Lynch. City bnctcr-
i0lOgisl, assisted by DR.. Samuel u.
Paul City Health Commissioner. had
ompieted the examination OF blood
culture ana tissues OF the more taken
from the body OF Cradle. First the
microscope outlined an isolated tn
bGrcular leprosy germ and then col
onies OF them. While In the Govern
meni service NJ Panama. Doctor
Lynch made many l.prosy cxamin-
at!on~. and his experience made the
proof that stood before him cohNinc-
Ing.
In turn Doctor Paul. Dr, {. 4. Sny-
der. county physician. and Dr. w H.
Tyndai. looked through the micro
scope aud studied the colonies. Grn-
blc regarded them carefully. lie had
been studying color Illustrations IN
.;iordnn's BacterIoioey." and when
the physicians stepped aside from inc
miscoscopc he wis quite prepared 10
make examinations Of his own cns".
That h. looked through the misco-
scope Xix. q man well yerscd In l"p-
rosy was apparent TO the phy.ic!an.
II want 10 thank you. EentIcmen.
said Cradle. ns detected looR
spread over his counicunnce. nm
convinced now for the first time thai
l am actually afflicted with I~rrory.
l will not try 10 run away now rs
did last December from IN" san
Francisco hospital ! VIII follow
your in.iructions Implicitly. May
God ren.i inbcr my wife ANA CHILD
The fact that Cradle first was ais.
covered in the county was called
TO the attention OF the County Com
missioners. Doctor Paul comtnuni-
Gated with Doctor Snyder. VINO VOL.
uu,..rcd that the county VIII pay
all expenses. Preparations were madc
for the removal Of Cradle to the $50
ia,iou hospital, :5ih East ana Tenth
south. where he will remain mn''
ci,y ana county health authorities
nave ~tsV ~
iilu., surgeon general Of the Vnti"d
states
Gtabl. expressed n Willingness 10
10 10 the Isolation hospital. hut first
he accom- fa nicd Doctor Paul To h's
offices In the kcarns iIuiidinx. There
hc examined uak authorities On lcp-
rosy, again satisfying himself that he
was afflicted with the disease. While
nj the office Of Doctor Paul he said
he was l-cltuE Iu the best OF health
and expected to suffer little incon-
Vcnicncc for the preacn'
Technical diagnosis OF the ease
performed BY Doctor Lynch and Doc.
TOR Paul showed he hns tuhcrruiar
lcprosy, CAUSING LESSONS. Another
Yotm, somewhat more common. "a
known M anaesthetic lcpro~y. bo-
cause the tsortionS Of the boy nftec.-
er become inxcuxible to pain. In his
present state Cradle II clssscd as
In. "facIcs lcontina" tyne Of (epcr
because the ravaxex Of the disease
.hay. tended to bring forth u lion
like expression about the eyebrows
and eyes. Photographs of lcpcrs TAX
en- ut Molokni OF this type strongly
resemble Cradle.
]. u. Flynn. chief sanitary inspce-
tor Of tho City Beard of Health.
caiica ut the office OF Doctor Paul
about s o'clock last night with = car
riagc for Cradle. The leper bade the
good.bye and accompanied
Flynn TO the isolation hispita!.
I've arc going to send letters TO-
morrow To Dr. Rupert Blue at Wash
ington and see II the Government
can assist us in dispOsing Of Grablc.
said Doctor Paul last night. II un-
|derstand the Government IL planning
to establish an isolation hospital for
lcpcrs on some isianu on tue Pacific
coast. II this hospital has been com-
pleted we Will ask he Government Ia
taxe care OF Cradle.
He served in the Philippines as u
soldier OF the First Wyoming durihg
the Spanish American War. and II IS
only right that the Government
should show some interest in him.
/ II Is possible that he contracted tn
disease In the Philippines"
The fact thut Grablc was In the
Philippines in 1895 and that sign.-
OF lcprosy did not develop until ,hreJ
years ago docs not discrefit the
theory that he contracted the dis.
case duriu; the war. Medical refer.
ences on lcprosy show that the dis.
ease may develop as late us 10 or 20
years. after The original infection
though 1, develops more frequently
in from s to is months.
Grab!e says that when he escaped
from the lcprosy isolation hospital nj
Snn Francisco December 10 he wal
convinced he did not have lcprosy
However. he did not visit his wife OF
rt Ns.h Call l.
surgeons doubt II they could have
been affected by the disease during
he period that Cradle was not awar,
of the afflic,ion. However, invcs,i.
cations may be continued.