Report on the etiology and prevention of yellow fever . om these was placed in alcohol which was sent mein a tin can from a neighboring town. I have always suspected thatthis alcohol was not of sufficient strength to properly preserve thetissues. On my way home from Decatur I stopped over for a day tosee my friend. Dr. Eeeves, who begged me to give him some of myyellow-fever material for study. Upon opening the box containing itI found that one of the bottles was broken and the alcohol had therefore left all of the material with Dr. Eeeves, requesting him toplace the fragments from t
Report on the etiology and prevention of yellow fever . om these was placed in alcohol which was sent mein a tin can from a neighboring town. I have always suspected thatthis alcohol was not of sufficient strength to properly preserve thetissues. On my way home from Decatur I stopped over for a day tosee my friend. Dr. Eeeves, who begged me to give him some of myyellow-fever material for study. Upon opening the box containing itI found that one of the bottles was broken and the alcohol had therefore left all of the material with Dr. Eeeves, requesting him toplace the fragments from the brolien bottle into fresh alcohol, and tohold the whole subject to my order. To make a long story short, Dr. Eeeves found in sections from one ofthese cases bacilli in great numbers, which were photographed for himby Dr. Detmers, of OJiio. The sections containing those bacilli con-tained also other bacilli and micrococci. The bacillus present in greatestabundance resembles in its morphology my bacillus a,-, it certainly isnot the bacillus of Fig. 21.—Bacillus of Babes in kidney, yellow fever. Material from Dr, Lacerdaa laboratory in Kio Janeiro. The morphology of the bacillus of Babes and its distribution in thetissues are shown in Fig. 21, which is taken from my article on yellowfever in Woods Handbook of the Medical Sciences, The bacillus ismagnified about 1,000 diameters, while the amplification for the tissueelements is 450. 180 ETIOLOGY AND PREVENTION OF YELLOW FEVER. Dr. Babes drawings of the same bacillus will be found on p. 525 ofbis work, Les Bacteries, Paris, 1886, 2d edition. All pathological exports to whom I have shown a duplicate of the sec-tion from which Dr. Detmers photographs were made agree with methat the microorganisms present represent a post-mortem invasion ofthe tissue, and of the particular piece of tissue from which the sectionwas made. The outer margin of the piece is evidently invaded byputrefactive organisms. Whether this piece came fro
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