The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-11

country near the shores of lakes and
rivers are now depopulated as a re-
suit OF the death-dealing bite OF these
flies, more deadly than the blood
sucking vampirish ghosts with which
IN the middle ages people supposed
night air to be inhabited For this
fly carries with it germs which il
leaves in the blood OF its victims.
which | shall show next"
A new film started.
here is picture OF some blood so
injected. Notice that wormlike sheath
OF undulating membrane terminating
IN slender whiplike process ~
which 1t moves about. That thing
wrlggling about like minute electric
eel, always in motion, is known as
the trypanosomc.
Il have secured these pictures 50
that l can better mass up the evil
dence against a certain person in
this room. For in the blood OF one
OF you is now going on the fight
which you have here seen portrayed
by the picture machine. Notice how
the blood corpuscles in this infected
blood have lost their smooth. glossy
appearance. become granular and in
capable OF nourishing the tissues. The
trypanosomes are fighting with the
normal blood cells Here we have
the lowest group OF animal life. the
PROTOCOL, at work killing the highest,
man."
Kennedy needed nothing more than
the breathless stiffness to convince
HIM OF the effectiveness Of his method
OF presenting his case.
Now" he resumed. "let US leave
this bloodsucking. vampirish tse-tse
fly for the moment. | have another
revelation to make"
He laid down on the table under
the lights, which now flashed uu
again, the little hollow silver cylinder.
This little instrument" Kennedy
explained, which have here is
known as a canula, little canal, for
leading off blood from the veins of
one person to anothcr-in other
words bio | TRANSMISSION Modern
doctors are proving themselves quite
successful in its use.
AN attempt has been made to trans
fuse Cushing's blood as donor to an
other person as recipient A man
suffering from the disease caught
from the bite OF the tse-tse fly-the
deadly sleeping sickness so wei
known in Africa-has deliberately
tried a form OF robbery which | be-
lieve to be without parallel He ha:
stolen the blood of another,
He stole it in desperate attempt
to stay an incurable disease. This
man had used an arsenic compound
called atoxyl. till his blood was filled
with 1t and its effects on the trypano-
somes nil. There was but one wild
experiment more to try-the stolen
blood of another"
Craig paused to let the horror OF
the crime sink into our minds.
, Some one in the party which went
! to look over the concession in the
Congo contracted the sleeping sick.
ness from the bites of those blood
sucking flies. That person has now
| reached the stage OF insanity, and
his blood is full of the germs and
overloaded with atoxyl One night
nerved up by fit of insane fury,
with a power far beyond what one
| would expect in his ordinary weak.
ened condition, he saw light in
| Cushing's laboratory. He stole in
stcathily He seized the inventor
with his momcntarily superhuman
strength and choked him. As they
| struggled he must have showed q
sponge soaked with ether and orange
essence under his nose. Gushing went
under
Resistance overcome by the anesa
thetic, he dragged the now insensiblc
form to the workbench. Frantically
he must have worked. He made an
incision and exposed the radial artery,
the pulse. Then he must have admire
istered a local anesthetic to himself
in his arm or leg. He secured
vein and pushed the cut end over this
little canula Then he fitted the
artery of Gushing over that and the
blood that was, perhaps. to save his
life began flowing into his depleted
| veins.
"Who was this madmano I have
watched the actions of those whom |
suspected when they did not know
they were being watched. | did it by
using this neat little device which
looks like a field glass, but is really
a camera >that takes pictures OF
things at right angles to the direction
in which the glass seems to be point
ed. One person, found, had a
wound on his leg. the wrapping of
which he adjusted nervously when
he thought no one was looking. He
had difficulty in limping even short
distance to open a window"
Kennedy uncorked bottle and the
! subtle odor of oranges mingled with
ether stole through the room.
Some one here will recognize that
odor Immediately. 1t is the new
orange-essence vapor anesthetic,
mixture of essence of orange with
ether and chloroform. The odor hid
den by the orange which fingered in
the laboratory, Mr.. Winslow and Mr..
Strong, was not isoprene, but really
ether. In this case the odor now
must suggest the terrible scene OF
the other night to some one before
me. More than that I have to tell
that person that the blood TRANSMISSION
did not and could not save him. His
! illness is due to a condition that is
| incurable and cannot be altered by
TRANSMISSION OF new blood That per-
son is just as doomed today as he
was before he committed"
A figure was cropping blindly about.
The arsenic compounds with which
his blood was surcharged had brought
on one of the attacks of blindness to
which users of the drug are subject.
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