New Britain herald., 1928-05-22
JAP SCIENTIST
GIVES Up LIFE
DR.. Hideyo NoguChi Was Study.
Ing Yellow Fever

New York, May % CP1-The name
OF DR.. Hideyo Noguch, famous Jap
anese scientist, today had been
added TO the list of those who have
given their lives in the fight against
the dread yellow fever OF the
tropics.
The Rockefeller Institute OF Medi-
cal Research, of which he had been
a member since its founding in 1904.
has been advised that he had died at
Accra, on the pestilential gold coast
of Africa. a victim of the fever. the
cause OF which he had just identified
by studying his own case.
81 Years Old
Or. NoguChi. who VAS 81 Years
old, undertook the expedition for
the Rockefeller foundation, to which
he had been loaned by the institute,
last November. At ACCra, one Of the
unhealthiest spots of the globe, he
set up his microscopes to discover
if possible. the relation between the
African and South American yellow
fever.
Ten days ago friends here re-
ceived letters saving he had won his
fight and had identified the cause
OF the fever as an indirect result of
his own illness, which had confined
him to hospital from December IS
to January ..
Monkey Dies
While i'll he inoculated a monkey
With some OF his own infected blood.
II contracted the disease and died.
Additional Experimentation definite
~ linked the feyers OF the two con-
tinents and he set to work to find
vaccine which would counteract IL
The institute said his associates
would carry on the search, aided by
the dead scientists notes.
DR.. NoEuchl was born at Ina
Usshiro, Yama, Fukushima, japan,
November "A, 1875 of an old but inn
povershed Samursl family. Even
as a child he was intensely fond of
experimentation and as a result of
his experiments lost several fingers
of his left hand.
Under the friendship of wealthy
japanese, NJ. kohayashi, he contin-
,ued his studies at the Tokyo Medi-
cal college, being graduated in 1897
with medical degree when .
years old. In 1925 he was appointed
assistant to the government institute
for infectious diseases at Tokyo and
held a leCtureShip in bacterlology at
the Tokyo Dental college.
Goes to Penn.
Coming to this country at the
turn of the century he Joined the
pathological staff of the University
OF Pennsylvania, serving for three
years. He was designated research
assistant of the Carnegie institution
in Washington and also for a time
studied at the statens Serum inst-
tute in Copenhagen. In 1904 he
joined the Rockefeller institute as
an original member and continued
with it until his death.
In 1915 he was chosen as a mem
Der of the Yellow fever commission
sent to Ecuador. South America, by
the Rockefeller foundation and
there succeeded against tremendous
difficulties in virtually exterminat-
ing the disease
Among his greatest researches in
the field of pathology in addition to
his work in yellow fever are the
discovery OF smallpox vaccine free
of bacteria: the discovery OF the
micro organism responsible for in
fantile paralysis; isolation OF the
eausative germ OF trachoma. the
dread eye disease: demonstration of
the kinship Of syphilis and paresis,
a muscular paralysis. and isolation
Of the rabies germ with the develop
ment OF treatment for Its use.
Honorary Degrees
He held honorary degrees from
he University OF Pennsylvania, the
Imperial University OF Tokyo, Yale.
Brown and the Sorbonne in Paris.
France. Spain, Denmark. Sweden.
Japan and Ecuador. had bestowed
honors upon him. In 1924 he was
named, by the Society of Japanese.
his race.
just last week ne was awarded
the silver medal of the American
Medical association for his re-
searches In trachoma.
His associates described him as
q slight man, of nervous manner.
with drawn features and dark eyes.
1ie was often referred to as "hu-
man dynamo" forgetting the world
entirely and working day and night
with little rest for weeks on end
when he was on the path to a new
discovery. In 1911 he married Mary
Dardis, who survives. She resides
in New York.
The flag Of imperial Japan was
ordered al half mast over the build
ings Of the Rockefeller Institute and
Foundation.