Show YELLOW rif lVER the enemy which has all along been most dreaded of all in cuba the yellow fever has come and is holding high carnival all the precautionary precaution azy measures which experience and skill could devise have been insufficient to keep the destroyer at bay and the proposed return of the american troops to this country pending the sway of the scourge proceeds so deliberately if it proceeds at all that probably the raab ravages will be over for the season before all ail are brought away in this connection it is proper to make mention of the gallant work performed by the soldiers of the twenty fourth regiment which was formerly stationed at fort douglas they have shown them themselves selven to be brave men and true whether facing the muskets of the spaniards or in contact with the spaniards most potent ally spoken of they will not be forgotten it is not in comfortable quarters such as are had in the city of santiago that the disease rages or obtains an easy footing but in the damp trenches and swampy places which abound in that region there the germination occurs and the microbes mic robes are diffused throughout the night air also in the higher places where there is little or no moisture of the soil except from rainfalls rain falls there is much less infection and of course this safeguard is not overlooked although as previously stated the malady has created and is still creating widespread havoc the situation has set the medical profession at work with renewed vigor fox foi means of prevention and cure A series of experiments have been going on recently at Swin bume island new york and it is now claimed as a result of the experience previously had and the developments already brought about that a check tor for the scourge has been secured it is accomplished by means of a toxin or serum by which the germs axe are destroyed the discovery of the germ origin and the remedy are the work of dr Ga gamarello marelli of montevideo and as shown by the new york journal has furnished a basis for our own physicians to work on it is now claimed that from a virulent I 1 form the physicians were able to transform it into the mildest and most innocuous form its animal victims instead of becoming mena menaces cesto to health were changed into creatures whose blood and abid tissues were an absolute absolum te preventive of the disease this thia was done by the game method as smallpox vaccine and diphtheria antitoxin anti toxin ire are obtained the yellow fever germs were first grown in groups or cultures as the bacteriologists say the deadly stuff was then injected in graduated quantities into the smaller animals and horses this produces all the symptoms of yellow fever without being sufficient to kill after a number of injections an animal becomes germproof then the scum drawn from the animals veins vans becomes a preventive or cure of the actual disease this remarkable medical work has been done in new york for the purpose of killing the dread disease on its occasional approach to new york by sea flea it Is shown that since the discoveries were made there is a wider field for their employment as it is understood they will be adopted by the united states government it is to be hoped that too boo much deliberation will not characterize the proceeding as yellow fever like time and tide watts waits for no man or class of men |