The Washington herald., 1915-10-12

asking that a quantity of the serum be
rushed to Bellevue Then he got in touch
with Dr. Silver, who, in addition to serv-
ing Mr.. Stackpole in a medical capacity,
was his classmate in Dartmouth over
forty years ago.
Anxiously the two awaited a reply
from Washington. When none came,
they called the bureau on the phone and
learned the wire had not arrived. The
bureau promised to assemble specimens
of the serum and rush it to New York on
the 3 o'clock express. The train pulled
in at S:06 tonight, one minute ahead of
schedule.
First Trial on Human.
Pacing the platform We're DR.. Dodson
and DR.. NJ. ]. Thornton, second deputy
of Bellevue Hospital. They seized the
box and hastened to the motor ambu-
lance. The trip from the Pennsylvania
station to the hospital was made at full
speed. Directions were enclosed with the
serum. Forty-seven cubic centimeters
were injected simultaneously in the pa
TENTS arm. chest, and abdomen. Twenty
five cubic centimeters more may be used
tomorrow.
This is the first application, so far as
l know. of this specific to a human be-
ing said Mr.. Henderson. The serum
is curative as well as preventive. Pas
teur. you recall. discovered a vaccine
that could be used as a preventive. This
has been practically useless because of
the sudden visitations of the disease.
'Dr. Eichhorn's serum is prepared by
injecting the baccilli into an animal and
then developing the cultures In tubes.
He has obtained remarkable results in
his experiments upon infected animals.
- A short time ago DR.. Eichhorn read a
paper narrating his results in San Fran
cisco before the American Medical Veter-
inarians' Association. Two days ago I
wrote to DR.. Blue. informing him that
the Bureau of Animal Industry had a
supply of the serum on hand and he could
give notice to physicians throughout the
country"
Dr. w. w. Goldwater. health commits
soner, today admitted he was worried
over the number of cases of the deadly
anthrax. which have made their appear
anc in the city lately. Since January /.
four persons. two men and two women
two in Brooklyn and two in Manhattan
have succumbed to anthrax. This Is the
largest number of victims recorded in the
city in a single year since 1909. when five
persons die d Of the malady.
The Public Health Service will start an
investigation at once into the reported
case OF IN NS~ OFk. MUCH IN
terest was shown yesterday by the Off
GERS Of the Public Health Service in the
reports of the illness Of George F. Stack
pole. a New York lawyer, reported to be
dying of the disease.
The public health officers describe it
as malignant febrile disease of cattle
and sheep that rarely attacks humans"
The only Information the public health
officers have yet received from the case
are those given in the newspapers. The
attacks upon human beings are 30 rare
that little or no study has been given
to the disease by physicians it was said
at the bureau.
The virus is impaired to the human
system by an insect and the effects are
not unlike the fatal South African
Sleeping sickness" The victim grad
uaIly wastes away by fever until re-
iieved by death. The Public Health
Bureau declared yesterday that there
was no necessity for fear Of an epidemic
of anthrax. But the New York case
will be thoroughly Investigated and =
report made upon II BY the bureau 9oe
the infonnstion of ~ peAaA