CHAPTER IV. 

 YELLOW FEVER* 



THE bacteriology of yellow fever has been studied by 

 Domingos Freire,* Carmona y Valle,t Sternberg,J Havel- 

 burg^ and Sanarelli, || but all of their work has been shown 

 to be incorrect by the interesting researches and very con- 

 clusive results of Finlay,** Carter, ft Reed, Carroll, Lazear, 

 and Agramonte,{J and Reed and Carroll, which have 

 proved the mosquito to be the definitive host of a parasite 

 probably belonging to the animal kingdom. Two of the 

 described bacteria, however, deserve mention, not because 

 they have much probable connection with yellow fever, but 

 because of certain striking peculiarities they possess. 



BACILLUS X (STERNBERG) . 



Sternberg || || reported the study of 42 yellow fever autopsies 

 in which aerobic and anaerobic cultures were made from 

 the blood, liver, kidney, urine, stomach, and intestines, but 

 the specific infectious agent was not found, and the most 

 approved bacteriologic methods failed to demonstrate the 



* "Doctrine microbienne de la fievre jaune et ses inoculation pre- 

 ventives," Rio Janeiro, 1885. 



t"L,eons sur 1'etiologie et la prophylaxie de la fievre jaune," 

 Mexico, 1885. 



J "Report on the Etiology and Prevention of Yellow Fever," Wash- 

 ington, 1891 ; "Report on the Prevention of Yellow Fever by Inocula- 

 tion," Washington, 1888. 



"Ann. de 1'Inst. Pasteur," 1897. 



|| "Brit. Med. Jour.," July 3, 1897, and "Ann. de 1'Inst. Pasteur," 

 June, Sept., and Oct., 1897. 



** "Amer. Jour. Med. Sci.," 1891, vol. en p. 264; "Ann. de la Real 

 Academia," vol. xvm, 1881, p. 147-169; "Jour. Amer. Med Assoc.," 

 vol. xxxvm, April 19, 1902, p. 993. 



tf'New Orleans Med. Jour.," May, 1890. 



tt "Phila. Med. Jour.," Oct. 27, 1900; "Public Health," vol. xxvi 

 1900, p. 23. 



"Public Health," vol. xxvn, 1901, p. 113. 



|,,| Tenth International Medical Congress, Berlin, 1890. 



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