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challenged 1 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 1 9th 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 llth last to the 31st. These volunteers excelled in their 

 attempts to take Yellow Fever from soiled clothing within their net- 

 protected cottage. Boxes of filthy clothing, stained with 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 



