Canton, writes us as follow:
T owe some gratitude to Dr. Yersin, and in the public interest I ask you to afford me space in your columns to make. known the circumstances. You are aware that in 1894 Dr. Yersin, of the Pasteur Institute at Paris, came to Hongkong to study on the spot the famous bubonic plague, which was committing such ravages at Canton and Hongkong. At that time he sent a large quantity of the bacilli of the plague to Dr.
four, the inventor of the serum against diphtheria. "These microbes were cultivated at the Institute. Dr. Yersin himself hus established a laboratory at Nhia Trang, in Tongking, where he keeps twenty horses for the preparation of serum to be used against several of the epidemic disease of these tropical regions, such as bubonic plague, cattle plague, etc, He had already made many successful experiments on rats affected with the plague, but he had not yet. tried his serum upon man. Tt was with this object that he landed the other day at Hongkong. On_the morning of the 26th June he was at Canton, not having as yet had the opportunity of trying his reniedy, At three o'clock in the afternoon he came to see me as he did in 1894, As we shook hands I said, Doctor, you have arrived most opportunely. A' case of plague has occurred this morning in our establishment and if you have discovered any remedy for this terrible disease since your last visit T will be very grateful if you Will employ it upon this young man. The case is pressing, a very painful bubo has formed on the thigh, the fever is intense, and the young man is completely prostrat* ed; it is an affair of twenty-four hours."
"Tam glad of this opportunity," said the good doctor; "I have brought with mo. the remedy for this microbe and Lhope to succeed in curing your pupil. There is absolutely nothing to fear. I will take a dose myself before you. It is, moreover,
month. If you like, I will inoculate all preservative against the plague, at least for your pupils and you may be assured the phgue will not visit them up to the end of "But doctor," I said, "your discovery isa marvel. Let us attend first to what is most pressing, and then we will see."
'The doctor took from his bag two or three bottles full of a' limpid fluid, slightly reddish, the quantity in each being about: a table-spoonful. How, doctor!" I said, is with that you are going to destroy the deadly. microbes of the plague!" Yes," said he, ''it isa terrible enemy for them. It is their own venom," "Then let us get on," said I; tas you answer for everything I repose full confidence in you. You will be the saviour of this youth."
The doctor then showed me a" small syringe, fine as a needle. It is with that," he added, "that the liquid is introduced beneath the skin." The instrument was something ilks the needle with which
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