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went all doubts! From the room rushed the eminent sevants of knowledge! Down went the screen door with a crash—such was the vehemence of their conviction that Welter Reed was right. (Though it happened that this particular jar of mosquitoes was not contaminated.)

Then William Crawford Gorgas and John Guitéras—he was a great Cuban authority on yellow jack—they were convinced too by those experiments at Camp Lazear, and they were full of excellent plans to put those experiments in practice—fine plans, but rash plans, alas. "It is remarkable," said Gorgas and Guitéras, "that these experimental cases at Camp Lazear didn't die—they had typical yellow fever, but they got better. maybe because Reed put them to bed so quickly." Then they proceeded to play with fire. "We will give newly arrived non-immune immigrants yellow fever—a smart attack of it, but a safe attack of it." They planned this, when it really was so easy to wipe out yellow fever simply by warring on the Stegomyia, which does not breed in secret places, which is a very domestic mosquito! "And at the same time we can confirm Reed's results," thought Gorgas and Guitéras.

The immigrants (of course they were very ignorant people) came; the immigrants listened and were told it was safe; seven immigrants and a bold young American nurse were bitten by the poisoned Stegomyia. And of these eight, two immigrants and the bold young American nurse went out from the hospital, safe from another attack of yellow fever, safe from all the worries of the world. . . . They went out, feet first—to slow music. What a fine searcher was Walter Reed—but what amazing luck he had, in those experiments at Camp Lazear. . . .

There was panic in Habana, and mutterings of the mob—and who can blame that mob, for human life is sacred. But there was Assistant Surgeon James Carroll, unsentimental as an embalmer and before all else a soldier,—he had just then come back to Habana to settle certain little academic questions. "We can wipe out yellow fever now, we have proved