DEATH IN ACTION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1927, Page 7

DEATH IN ACTION

SOLDIER OF SCIENCE

FIGHTING YELLOW FEVER

GREAT DOCTOR DIES

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 22nd September. Professor Adrian Stokes, the eminei pathologist, who has been, devoting s: months' leave of absence from GuyHospital, London, to yollow-fevor r search work in West Africa, died < the complaint contracted while at woi at Lagos. He was one of the for most authorities on. yellow fever ai other tropical diseases, and messages i sympathy, in which tributes aro pa to his great sacrifice in the interests i the native races of the Tropics, hal been received from many prom'inej scientists abroad. ON THE EVE OP DISCOVERY. It is now revealed that Profess Stokes was on the evo of epoch-ma ing discovery, when struck down \ yellow fever. Ho went out last Me to Wost Africa to engage in resean work as a member- of the Rockefoll Commission on yellow foyer. In one his last letters he announced that ho hi made quite definite and substantial pr gress towards solving the problem < the transmission of yollow foyer ai its actual causative organism. Ho hi done what had not been dono out the before—he had succeeded in transmi ting infoction to young chimpanze by infecting them from tho blood i human patients. Ho had also succce od in infecting chimpanzees with yello fovor by moanß of mosquitoes, whii had been fed on human pationts. I added: "We have our fish hooked, is now just a mattor of landing hi) Unless wo arc careless or the tack breaks, that is only a question of tim Tho time may bo years, but it mn come." It is not yet known whether the lo of this fearless pioneer in medical i search will mean tho loss of a socr of incalculable valuo in fighting yolk foyer.' It is hopod, howovcr, that tl discoveries may bo worked out by h colloagues engaged at Lagos.