XC1V PROCEEDINGS. 
chatlenged? To settle this question, the Commission formed an exten- 
sive camp in Cuba, not very far from Havana, called after their first 
martyr for the cause of science—which is the cause of humanity— 
Camp Lazear. Special buildings were put up for various purposes, and 
the strictest regulations were enforced, with every action tested and 
recorded. 
On the 30th of last November, three men who never had Yellow 
Fever agreed to go into one of the little cottages, which was furnished 
with doors and windows perfectly protected from mosquitoes by a fine 
wire netting or gauze, every night to sleep, for twenty nights. During 
the day they remained in their own quarantined tent near by. In 
this cottage, which was kept up to tropical heat, were the clothes and 
bedding taken, soiled, from beds of Yellow Fever patients. These 
clothes they packed away in the morning and opened out at night, and 
slept in. On the 19th of December they came out all right, and after 
quarantine for five days were allowed to go at large, while another set, 
consisisting of two volunteers, tried the experiment for the next 
twenty days, and still another set for the next twenty days, from 
January 11th last to the 3lst. These volunteers excelled in their 
attempts to take Yellow Fever from soiled clothing within their net- 
protected cottage. Boxes of filthy clothing, stained wiuh blood and 
vomit from the Yellow Fever hospitals, were opened up within the 
room, sometimes causing such a stench that they had to retire tempo- 
rarily when opening the boxes. Here they slept for twenty nights, in 
the very clothing of those who had died from the fever. But no fever 
was taken during these sixty days by these five noble volunteers. This 
would appear to demonstrate that the mode of quarantining should be 
adjusted to the specific nature of each kind of disease. What may be 
necessary for small-pox may be altogether unnecessary for other 
diseases. Millions of dollars have been spent on quararanting Yellow 
Fever which had little more virtue than the incantations of the old 
red Indian medicine-men ; while the real cause was practically allowed 
to be limited by nature, as it was in the days of the medicine-men. 
But in the camp at Lazear, in another cottage, other experiments 
were being conducted by heroes as great as war or missionary zeal 
ever produced. A cottage was divided in two by a mosquito-proof 
netting—each half alike. Volunteers sleep in each. But in the one 
