The aforementioned study was published in 1919, and its purpose was to determine influenza’s mode of spread. It was carried out on a group of 100 volunteers from the U.S. Navy and took place on an island in Boston Harbor called Gallops Island.
"According to a document from The American Association of Immunologists, at the time these experiments were conducted, many scientists believed that influenza was caused by what was then known as Pfeiffer’s bacillus. This is because during the influenza pandemic of 1892, a German doctor named Richard Pfeiffer isolated these bacteria from influenza patients.
That being said, the first thing they did in the experiments at Gallops Island was administer a “rather moderate amount” of “a pure culture of bacillus of influenza, Pfeiffer’s bacillus” into the nostrils of some of the volunteers.
Nothing happened, so they decided to administer “a very large quantity of a mixture of thirteen different strains of the Pfeiffer bacillus” to 19 of the volunteers by spraying it into their nose, eyes, and throat while they inhaled. Still, none of them got sick.
Next, they “collected the material and mucous secretions of the mouth and nose and throat and bronchi” from influenza patients in Boston hospitals and administered this to ten of the volunteers.
This study took place during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, so there was certainly no shortage of influenza patients at the time.
Basically, they allowed these people, who were sick with influenza, to cough and blow their noses into a tray after gargling and/or washing out the nostrils with a sterile salt solution, and mucous was also swabbed from their throats and nostrils. This mixture was then sprayed into the nostrils, eyes, and throats of the volunteers, and it was also instilled (dispensed with an eye dropper) into some of the volunteers. However, even after all this, no one got sick.
At this point, the doctors running the experiments suspected that perhaps the reason nobody got sick was that these secretions had to travel up to four hours to get from Boston hospitals to the test subjects on Gallops Island, and “the virus was perhaps very frail, and could not stand this exposure”.
So, they tried the experiment again, but this time they had the material rushed to Gallops Island in only an hour and forty minutes. Also, they administered six times as much material to each subject as they did in the previous experiment, but still, none of them fell ill.
Next, they suspected that “it is possible that the salt solution might be inimical to the virus”, so in an attempt to eliminate “all other outside influences”, they “transferred the material directly from nose to nose and from throat to throat” using cotton swabs on the end of sticks. It’s not clear whether they brought patients to Gallops Island or had the Navy volunteers visit the hospital(s), but in any case, they made sure to try this with patients who were on their first day of the disease, as well as with those on their second and third days. Again, none of the volunteers came down with anything.
In the next experiment, blood was taken from the arms of influenza patients and then injected into ten volunteers, but even this couldn’t get anyone sick.
Then the doctors “collected a lot of mucous material from the upper respiratory tract” and ran it through filters which block normal sized bacteria and only allow “ultramicroscopic” organisms to pass through. They injected this filtrate into ten volunteers, and, you guessed it, nobody got sick.
Next, they wanted to simulate the way that influenza is supposed to spread naturally.
They brought ten volunteers to the U. S. Naval Hospital at Chelsea, where there was a ward filled with influenza patients. Here, the volunteers were made to be in close contact with these patients, shaking their hands, sitting by their bedsides and talking with them, and then, while “muzzle to muzzle” the patients breathed out as hard as they could while the volunteers breathed in. This was done five times.
They even went so far as to have the patients cough directly into the volunteers’ faces. This was also done five times.
Each volunteer went through this whole process with ten different influenza patients at various stages of the disease. But incredibly, even after all this, the volunteers were watched carefully for a whole week, and surprise, surprise, none of them got sick.
In addition, it also points out that two of the doctors who worked on the experiments conducted a similar study at Goat Island, San Francisco, and “they were unable to reproduce the disease” in these tests, as well.
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